Fairytales These Days

Hi, I am Lekha Bandopadhyay, a science writer and the creator of this website!

I began blogging here to storify the recent discoveries. These newfound facts are just as fantastic as fiction, but often hide in the pages of journals written by and for scientists in their own code language. Can you believe it?

Never mind, check my posts on the Blog page decoding some wonderful discoveries. And You must check there my doodling about discoveries by us, the crazy nosy Homo sapiens!

Now, while there is a substantial amount of science communication being done in English, many languages are lagging behind. Hence, here I have also begun to write in Bengali (বাংলা), my mother tongue, the seventh most spoken language in the world. The goal is to break the barriers in every possible way.

I have a PhD in Life Sciences. Read about my findings here. I ran my crazy experiments at Bose Institute, a century old research institute in India, founded by eminent scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose. I also ran around in Vienna, Austria as a researcher at Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology, a brand new but fantastic plant research Institute named after Gregor Johan Mendel, the father of genetics.

Interestingly, neither Bose (Physicist) nor Mendel (Mathematician) was a biologist to start with, but they made important contributions to biology. I studied chemistry and biochemistry for the bachelor’s and master’s. But my doctoral research was in plant biology. Discovery doesn’t care about disciplines or barriers, it is all about the eureka moments!

So, welcome everybody, humans, fairies, gnomes and goblins, welcome to “Fairytales These Days”. Wish you an eureka time here!

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