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Jan 6, 2024

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Chronicles of CoronaThe pandemic gave a new impetus to my writing. As a bioscience professional, I felt it is a duty to lucidly explain the science that was driving this terrible phase of our times. It started with facebook posts and then one article led to another - both in english and bengali.
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COVID UPDATE — its a CVD3+ yrs into it, I think the piling evidence is enough to show that covid-19 is mainly a Cardiovascular disease.
Jan 6, 2024
Jan 6, 2024
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A compilation of evidence that COVID-19 attacks the cardiovascular system bad and hard.The veteran cardiologist, scientist and writer Eric Topol has been at the forefront of science communication throughout the pandemic years…
Mar 4, 2023
Mar 4, 2023
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স্কুল খুলুক, সঙ্গে হাওয়া বাতাস খেলুক ক্লাসঘরেOn the essentiality of improved indoor ventilation in classrooms (and other public indoor spaces) to reduce COVID transmission.
Mar 3, 2023
Mar 3, 2023
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Pollution, Smoking And ‘Long COVID’…A Blow-by-Blow Account Of Drama That Could Play Out Inside Your…(you can read it here —…
Mar 1, 2023
Mar 1, 2023
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সতর্ক থাকা জরুরি, ভয় দেখানো বন্ধ হোকOn the essentiality to stop fear-mongering and adopt simple do-able social measures to reduce COVID and many other respiratory diseases.
Mar 3, 2023
Mar 3, 2023
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Why dead bodies do not spread novel coronavirus(published in The Hindu, 18th May, 2020; there is a paywall, but you can read it here)
Feb 28, 2023
Feb 28, 2023
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টিকাকরণের লক্ষ্য হোক শিক্ষর্থীদের পরিবারTo facilitate safe opening of schools, let us prioritize vaccination for family-elders of school children
Mar 3, 2023
Mar 3, 2023
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Trends of COVID-19: Understanding Facets of 13 months of the Pandemicco-authored with Prof. Saswata Ghosh of the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. Published in the Monthly Bulletin of the Asiatic…
Mar 3, 2023
Mar 3, 2023
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INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ORIGIN OF SARS-CoV-2 : A SUMMARY OF THE SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS OF 2020[It is two and half months since I submitted this for review. The delay has been irking, especially cos covid-19 is an exceptionally rapid…
Jan 8, 2021
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ভয়ঙ্কর ভাইরাস ও বিষাক্ত ধোঁয়াRecent research informs on the nexus between cigarette smoke and SARS-CoV-2 and provides a cellular explanation as to why smoking often…
Mar 3, 2023
Mar 3, 2023
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‘Targeted Vaccination’ could help re-open schools faster and keep them openIn a recent report, the UNICEF has said, “The losses that children and young people will incur from not being in school may never be…
Sep 1, 2021
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Sep 1, 2021
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IS VACCINATION PROTECTING BENGAL’S ELDERLY PEOPLE FROM COVID-19 ?Last month, rather bugged with the chronic vaccine hesitancy of many relatives and friends, I had made a bilingual video in English and…
May 13, 2021
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Bengal’s ‘Sentinel Survey’ shows encouraging results, but….In the middle of last month, with the 2nd wave showing signs of tapering off, the Health Ministry of the West Bengal govt. initiated a…
Aug 4, 2021
Aug 4, 2021
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The side-effects of Mission Impossible: updating oneself while convincing (!?) the unwillingThis afternoon a friend shared a newslink about increase in cases of the rare neurological mild-to-serious Guillain-Barré syndrome in…
Jun 4, 2022
Jun 4, 2022
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Two simple tests could help authorities identify fake vaccinesAbout a week ago, the WHO issued an alert that fake vaccines i.e. vials labeled with counterfeit Covishield labels but not containing the…
Aug 26, 2021
Aug 26, 2021
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A MONTH FULL OF ELECTION, IN TIMES OF THE PANDEMICIndian elections are GIGANTIC affairs of massive public meetings and huge rallies. They involve millions, rather tens of millions of people…
May 15, 2021
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May 15, 2021
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INDIA’S COVID NUMBERS ARE DECREASING….BUT ARE THEY DECREASING…?Like many of us, the decrease of covid-19 cases detected in India over the last two months has given me a feeling of relief. But it has…
Dec 29, 2020
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Dec 29, 2020
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রাজ্যের সাম্প্রতিক ‘ঢেউ’ প্রায় অতিক্রান্ত, কিন্তু …করোনা নিয়ে এত বেশি আলোচনা হয়েছে, এত এত লেখা হয়েছে যে আমাদের মধ্যে একটা ‘আর না, অনেক হল’ মানসিকতা স্বাভাবিক ভাবেই চলে এসেছে। এবং শুধু…
Jul 31, 2022
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Jul 31, 2022
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Chronicles of Corona

The pandemic gave a new impetus to my writing. As a bioscience professional, I felt it is a duty to lucidly explain the science that was driving this terrible phase of our times. It started with facebook posts and then one article led to another - both in english and bengali.

COVID UPDATE — its a CVD

3+ yrs into it, I think the piling evidence is enough to show that covid-19 is mainly a Cardiovascular disease.

A compilation of evidence that COVID-19 attacks the cardiovascular system bad and hard.

The veteran cardiologist, scientist and writer Eric Topol has been at the forefront of science communication throughout the pandemic years…

স্কুল খুলুক, সঙ্গে হাওয়া বাতাস খেলুক ক্লাসঘরে

On the essentiality of improved indoor ventilation in classrooms (and other public indoor spaces) to reduce COVID transmission.

Pollution, Smoking And ‘Long COVID’…A Blow-by-Blow Account Of Drama That Could Play Out Inside Your…

(you can read it here —…

সতর্ক থাকা জরুরি, ভয় দেখানো বন্ধ হোক

On the essentiality to stop fear-mongering and adopt simple do-able social measures to reduce COVID and many other respiratory diseases.

Why dead bodies do not spread novel coronavirus

(published in The Hindu, 18th May, 2020; there is a paywall, but you can read it here)

টিকাকরণের লক্ষ্য হোক শিক্ষর্থীদের পরিবার

To facilitate safe opening of schools, let us prioritize vaccination for family-elders of school children

Trends of COVID-19: Understanding Facets of 13 months of the Pandemic

co-authored with Prof. Saswata Ghosh of the Institute of Development Studies, Kolkata. Published in the Monthly Bulletin of the Asiatic…

INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE ORIGIN OF SARS-CoV-2 : A SUMMARY OF THE SCIENTIFIC FINDINGS OF 2020

[It is two and half months since I submitted this for review. The delay has been irking, especially cos covid-19 is an exceptionally rapid…

ভয়ঙ্কর ভাইরাস ও বিষাক্ত ধোঁয়া

Recent research informs on the nexus between cigarette smoke and SARS-CoV-2 and provides a cellular explanation as to why smoking often…

‘Targeted Vaccination’ could help re-open schools faster and keep them open

In a recent report, the UNICEF has said, “The losses that children and young people will incur from not being in school may never be…

IS VACCINATION PROTECTING BENGAL’S ELDERLY PEOPLE FROM COVID-19 ?

Last month, rather bugged with the chronic vaccine hesitancy of many relatives and friends, I had made a bilingual video in English and…

Bengal’s ‘Sentinel Survey’ shows encouraging results, but….

In the middle of last month, with the 2nd wave showing signs of tapering off, the Health Ministry of the West Bengal govt. initiated a…

The side-effects of Mission Impossible: updating oneself while convincing (!?) the unwilling

This afternoon a friend shared a newslink about increase in cases of the rare neurological mild-to-serious Guillain-Barré syndrome in…

Two simple tests could help authorities identify fake vaccines

About a week ago, the WHO issued an alert that fake vaccines i.e. vials labeled with counterfeit Covishield labels but not containing the…

A MONTH FULL OF ELECTION, IN TIMES OF THE PANDEMIC

Indian elections are GIGANTIC affairs of massive public meetings and huge rallies. They involve millions, rather tens of millions of people…

INDIA’S COVID NUMBERS ARE DECREASING….BUT ARE THEY DECREASING…?

Like many of us, the decrease of covid-19 cases detected in India over the last two months has given me a feeling of relief. But it has…

রাজ্যের সাম্প্রতিক ‘ঢেউ’ প্রায় অতিক্রান্ত, কিন্তু …

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