[News] That's the sense of fulfilment... when you go back at night, to feel that you have done everything you can

[Somik Raha]

She is the niece of Nobel laureates C.V. Raman and Chandrashekhar. She chose medicine because she says the precedent in her family of mathematicians and physicists was too daunting to surpass. The winner of the Magsaysay Award in 2005, Dr V Shanta talks to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7's Walk the Talk programme, about 53 years of work in cancer treatment.

I'm in Chennai, this week, in what you might describe as the corridors of compassion. With me today is Dr. V. Shanta, chairperson of the Adyar Cancer Institute. Congratulations, first of all, for your Magsaysay Award: one of the very few, I believe, to go to a doctor.

Read more.. (Indian Express, Aug 23, 2005)

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Posted by Somik Raha to News at 8/23/2005 08:06:00 PM