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Editor’s note: Starting National Science Day 2018, The Life of Science and Firstpost bring you a series profiling Indian women in Science. The challenges in Indian scientific life are many — more so for women taking up this path. This series honours those who beat the odds and serve as inspirations for the next generation of Indian science — a generation that is slowly and surely on its way to becoming gender equal.
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Text by Sandhya Ramesh | Art by Pooja Prabhakaran
Farah Ishtiaq | 45 | Ecologist and avian disease researcher | Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
Read more from the Women in Science series here .
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