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Two children with albinism were killed in separate attacks in Mozambique at the weekend, police have said. Unidentified men used a hoe to beat a six-year-old boy to death in central Mozambique’s Mulumbo district, said police commander Miguel Caetano. He added that the child’s brother-in-law, who is currently on the run, is wanted in connection […]
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The statues of Dr Acacio Viegas (left) and Gen Dr Miguel Caetano Dias. | Courtesy: Luis Dias
Maybe some of you have heard of Dr Acacio Gabriel Viegas (April 1, 1856-February 21, 1933). I hadn’t until about a decade ago. Until then, I would pass by his statue near Mumbai’s Metro cinema without realising that it was his discovery of the outbreak of bubonic plague in Bombay that saved thousands of souls.
Viegas returned to my attention recently while I was reading
Room 000: Narrative of the Bombay Plague by Kalpish Ratna. Kalpish Ratna is the nom de plume of Ishrat Syed and Kalpana Swaminathan, both surgeons, who writer together to explore the interface between science and the humanities.