Virulence profile

Abstract

I was born to my mother, Mrs Bani Chakravortty, a homemaker and my father, Shri Santosh Kumar Chakravortty, an engineer. My birthplace was Jabalpur, one of the major cities of Madhya Pradesh, India. My father served in a government job with frequent changes in service locations. So immediately after my birth, we moved to Bombay and I completed my schooling there. My mother came from a family of doctors and my paternal side had a legacy of practicing Ayurvedic medicines. I was born when she was 18 and hence our relationship is more of a friendship. She has shaped my career and played a very instrumental role in making me what I am today. My early days were very happy days: going to school, playing around with friends, making mud houses in the garden and mock-cooking with my brother Sanjoy and our friends in the garden. We used to collect all the leaves from the garden and cook using wood fire to discover the color of the resultant broth! My parents never inhibited me from doing anything and hence I opened up all faulty stuff in the house from fan to transistor. I was 7, I think, when I mixed some milk cream with talcum powder and named it as my special cream. Ignorant enough, not knowing the science of microbes! My mom to her horror saw black stuff in a corner and threw it away! Strangely, at an early age I felt the presence of an invisible strength. I always thought that there is some invisible strength in this universe, though never shared with anybody.