Author: Kalyan Kumar Ganguli

ORS or Oral Rehydration Solution, also known as ORT or Oral Rehydration Therapy is a solution of definite proportion of glucose and a few other salts and water. The famous medical journal, The Lancethailed it as ‘potentially the most important medical advance of the 20th century’. The use of ORT has been estimated to decrease the risk of death from diarrheal diseases by up to 93%. Dr Dilip Mahalanabis discovered ORS, but this life-saving discovery was doomed to be unutilised, unrecognised and forgotten forever, as its effectiveness as claimed by Dr Mahalanabis was looked upon with suspicion by the majority of global scientific…

During the full solar eclipse of 1995, Dr Narayan Chandra Rana, the famous astrophysicist, was a headliner for all media houses as he was the most sought after teacher on solar system to students and amateur astronomers throughout India and abroad. Now, 27 years after his sad demise at the young age of 42 in the year 1996, his low presence in internet and no news in media about any programme in academic, professional and amateur astronomy circles in his memory suggests that we have almost forgotten him. The birth and upbringing of a child prodigy Narayan Chandra Rana was…