Have you heard of Durga!? Of course you would have heard of Durga Mata but this is Durga or Kanupriya Agarwal!
Search about her and no, she is not related to Kajal Agarwal!
Then you search about Subhash Mukhopadhyay!
And finally you can search about T C Anand Kumar!
Before all that you must know about the first IVF baby in the world!
The only non interesting thing (for others that is!) in all this is that it was done in the year of my birth! 1978!
So let’s start with Steptoe and Edwards!
In the year 1978 the final result of their efforts yielded result of a collaboration started in 1968.
So finally in 1977, Steptoe and Edwards successfully carried out a pioneering conception which resulted in the birth of the world’s first baby to be conceived by IVF, Louise Brown, on 25 July 1978 in Oldham General Hospital, Greater Manchester, UK!
In India the first official test tube baby was credited to T C Anand Kumar; a great soul indeed who after going through the notes and research concluded that he was not the first but the second! This was in 1986!
Remember that it takes much more confidence and guts to praise others!
The scientist in question was Subhash Mukhopadhyay!
Subhash Mukhopadhyay was an Indian scientist, physician from Hazaribagh, Bihar and Orissa Province who created the world’s second and India’s first child using in-vitro fertilisation.
Dr. Subhash Mukhopadhyay was harassed by the then West Bengal state government and not allowed to share his achievements with the international scientific community for unknown reasons.
So Kanupriya Agarwal (Durga), who was born in 1978 due to the work of Dr Subhash Mukhopadhyay is the actual first IVF baby of India! Interestingly, she was born just 67 days after the first IVF baby in the world!
If at all you are asked to name a great doctor or a great Indian, you can tell Subhash Mukhopadhyay!
And speaking of a strong person like Durga reminds me of KPAC Lalitha who left us last year…
Read about Subhash ji and get inspired
Shubh ratri…
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