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Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
It was during the winter of year 2019 when Covid struck. In a matter of days, the virus stealthily spread at an alarming, breakneck speed all over the world, leading to devastating loss of lives and crippling of economies. Like all biological entities, it had to have a purpose. To search for that purpose, Prof. Sujata Sharma of All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi undertakes a memorable expedition on her imaginary spaceship into the solar system. She encounters all the nine heavenly bodies of 'Navagraha' and their corresponding Warriors in White in AIIMS and other leading hospitals of India. Using a heady combination of molecular medicine, astronomy and Vedic astrology, she understands the nuances and eccentricities of the virus. At a celestial level, the expedition begins from the Sun, Prof Randeep Guleria and progresses to other planets and warriors, eventually spanning the entire galaxy. At a terrestrial level, the journey starts from New Delhi to Chandigarh via Bengaluru, zipping through Mumbai and Varanasi, onwards to Noida and finally ending back in Delhi. This exhilarating and inspiring voyage in the middle of the deadliest pandemic of the world helps her to finally discover the elusive Covid's purpose.
Sujata Sharma
Dr. Sujata Sharma is a Professor in the Department of Biophysics at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi. She has been conferred the Kalpana Chawla Excellence award for her contribution to science and literature. The Department of Biotechnology of the Government of India awarded her the National Bioscience Award for Career Development, one of the highest Indian science awards, for her contributions to biosciences. She is also a recipient of the National Young Woman Bioscientist Award of the Department of Biotechnology which was conferred to her by the President of India. She has been deeply passionate about Molecular Medicine and science popularization. Through her books which essentially are a combination of science and fiction, she intends to bridge the gap between science and society. She is also the author of the books, “The Secret of the Red Crystals”, an inspirational memoir of her discovery of molecular structure of C-lobe, an antibacterial protein in AIIMS Delhi and "A Dragonfly's Purpose", which is an autobiographical account of her recovery from a debilitating autoimmune paralytic disease, Guillain Barre Syndrome.
