Vasanthi Hariprakash

Hemanth da’s compositions are soul food. Anupama is care and point @vasanthihari was the reason I watched that movie on a bigger screen during a film festival she had curated. Thanks Amma!

Meet Kalpana Jha, a homemaker in Darbhanga who had never earned her own money until she turned 51. Her husband was retiring from his government job in 2020 when the pandemic hit, but instead of settling into a quiet second act, she decided to sell the pickles she had spent decades perfecting in her own kitchen. Her sister-in-law Uma, a schoolteacher with zero business experience, joined her, and Kalpana borrowed 12 lakh rupees from her husband to get started. They pitched on Shark Tank India in 2021 and walked away with no deal. The episode aired in December, and within an hour of it going live they did a month's worth of sales, crashed their own website, ran out of inventory, and fielded over 2,000 missed calls. Namita Thapar and Vineeta Singh came back a season later, apologized on camera for passing the first time, and invested 85 lakh rupees for 8.45 % equity. By 2023, JhaJi Store had crossed 4.8 crore rupees in annual sales to 60,000 customers, and Kalpana's kitchen-factory in Darbhanga had gone from making 100 kilos of pickle a day to 400. "I was a homemaker until I was 51 years old, and would even hesitate to talk to people." ~ Kalpana Jha From hesitating to talk to people to running board meetings, but the 12 lakh rupees she was scared might vanish now pays wages to more than 50 women in her village. video credit: ig @ jhajistore | @ the_savage_glow #humanbioscope

In 1954 a young professor in Madras walked to the leather institute down the road and asked them for a piece of kangaroo tail. With it he worked out the structure of the most common protein in the human body. Then Francis Crick, who had just cracked DNA, told the world he was wrong. His name was Gopalasamudram Narayanan Ramachandran. He was born on 8th October 1922 in Ernakulam. His father taught mathematics. He topped the physics honours course in the whole of the Madras Presidency, studied under C V Raman at the Indian Institute of Science, and took a second doctorate at Cambridge under Lawrence Bragg. At 29 he was made a full professor and the founding head of the physics department at the University of Madras. He decided to work on collagen. Collagen is the protein that holds you together. It is in your skin, your bones, your tendons and your muscles. It is the most abundant protein in the animal body. Nobody knew what shape it was. The tools he had were not the tools of Cambridge or Caltech. He needed a sample rich in collagen, so he got kangaroo tail tendon from the Central Leather Research Institute nearby, and studied how X rays scattered off it. In 1954, with Gopinath Kartha, he published a model in the journal Nature. 3 chains, twisted around each other. Europe and America started calling it the Madras Triple Helix. In 1955 Francis Crick and Alexander Rich published a criticism. They said certain atoms in his model sat impossibly close together. Crick said the idea was basically correct but the actual structure was wrong. He was competing against Cambridge, King's College London and Caltech, from a new department in Madras, and the most famous molecular biologist alive had just said he was mistaken. He did not write a rebuttal. He went back to first principles and asked a much bigger question. Forget collagen. What shapes can any protein chain physically take, and which are impossible because the atoms would collide. In 1963, with C Ramakrishnan and V Sasisekharan, he published the answer. It is a simple graph, and it is now called the Ramachandran plot. Every structural biologist alive uses it. When any new protein structure is published anywhere in the world, it is checked against that plot to see whether it is physically possible. He turned an attack on one model into the rule that governs all of them. And his collagen model, in its essentials, is accepted today. C V Raman nominated him for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He never received it. He was never given the Bharat Ratna either. He gave most of his prize money away. He funded a bed at the Adyar Cancer Institute in his parents' names and gave one award entirely to the Prime Minister's relief fund. In his sixties he developed Parkinson's disease. He retired in 1989 and died on 7th April 2001. A scientist writing in The Hindu called it the prize that missed the master. The leather institute that gave him the kangaroo tail named its auditorium Triple Helix.

A truly momentous day—one that I will cherish for the rest of my life. Words fail to express the depth of my gratitude to the Almighty for His countless blessings. To be blessed with the support of Isagnani @ilaiyaraaja Sir, & to have him as the #Patron of the Centre of Excellence for #Music, #Brain, #Mind and #Health, is far beyond anything I had dreamt of or even imagined. It is a rare privilege & an immense honor to have the guidance & encouragement of a musical legend whose work has touched millions of lives across generations. This moment reaffirms my belief that a dream nurtured with sincerity, purpose, & a pure heart will always find blessings & support from the Divine. What makes this occasion even more special is that the MoU between @NIMHANS_BLR was signed on @ilaiyaraaja Sir's 83rd b'day—a remarkable & meaningful coincidence that feels truly providential. My heartfelt gratitude @ilaiyaraaja Sir for his trust, faith & encouragement, & to Mr. Sriram Bakthisaran -@OneMercuri Foundation for their unwavering support in making this vision a reality. Grateful to my institute @NIMHANS_BLR, @globalpmh. Thanks to all my mentors, collaborators, students & all funding agencies who have supported & nurtured #musiccognitonlab over the years. The journey continues—now in a new gear, inspired, humbled, & determined. #brainhealth #cognition #Musicpsychology @PMOIndia @MoHFW_INDIA @India_Alliance

Asia's 1st female neurosurgeon, Identifying HIV in India & creating awareness , leading the efforts of Cardiology & its education in India, A short thread on some of Indian Women Doctors - TS Kanaka, Padmavathi Iyer and Sunithi Solomon #WomensDay who broke barriers #medtwitter