cholera

In these fearful times, let us remember the efforts of these forgotten heroes, who proved pandemics can be overcome

Himself tending to patients at great personal risk, Dr Viegas also launched an intense campaign to clean up Mumbai’s slums and exterminate rats, which he knew, were carriers of the disease. #ForgottenHeroes

Way back in 1953, Hemendra Nath Chatterjee first treated 186 patients with an “oral glucose-sodium electrolyte solution”. But it’s widely believed that “racism or the lack of a ‘scientific’ rationale prevented the widespread adoption of his work.” #IndiansInScience #LostTales

"De died in 1985 unhonoured and unsung in India's scientific circles. That our Academies did not see it fit to elect him to their Fellowships must rank as one of the most glaring omissions of our time."

For many of us reading this, the thought of not being able to use a toilet when the need arises is not something that we can fathom.

The story of how the mysterious distribution of chapatis spooked the British administrators of the Raj shortly before the outbreak of rebellion in 1857.