by Charu Thakur | Jun 8, 2024
(June 8, 2024) As a five-year-old, Dr Praapti Jayaswal vividly remembers her grandfather, who was a TB physician in Daryaganj, asking his patients to produce three days’ mucus in vial during the check-up. “Back then, this was the core parameter in TB...
by Vikram Sharma | Mar 18, 2023
(March 18, 2023) Pritam Kumar Panda had a tough childhood. A year after he was born, he lost his father. With great difficulty, his mother got a job as a primary school teacher earning Rs 400 per month. For the next 10 years, the mother and her son would stay in a hut...
by Vikram Sharma | Sep 21, 2022
(September 21, 2022) As a child, Anuradha Acharya would spend hours in a physics laboratory watching her father, a physics professor, work. In between conducting experiments, he used to encourage his daughter to be inquisitive and constantly seek answers. As a result,...