The Title of the post today must have stupefied my readers. What has Amazon to do with Aligarh, and who is Hamida and how does she figure in the scheme of things featuring Amazon and Aligarh?; a few such questions would have arisen in their mind for sure. My reaction was no different either whenContinue reading “Hamida: The Amazon of Aligarh”
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Fatima Sheikh : Unknown…No More
The International Women’s Day was celebrated a few days ago and in the backdrop of this occasion I was hunting for an inspirational story, something which was unprecedented and luckily I stumbled upon one of India’s earliest educators and social reformists, Fatima Sheikh. Her work was out of the ordinary, so much so that GoogleContinue reading “Fatima Sheikh : Unknown…No More”
Dr Michiaki Takahashi : The man who tamed the Varicella
Today is the 94th birth anniversary of Dr Michiaki Takahashi, a celebrated Japanese Virologist, who successfully developed the Chicken Pox vaccine, which has been administered to millions of children worldwide to prevent severe cases of chicken pox in them. Google too has come out with a Doodle in honour of Dr Takahashi today and soContinue reading “Dr Michiaki Takahashi : The man who tamed the Varicella”