Anju Maskeri

Barely four months into launching, the core team at Kasturba Hospital’s genome sequencing lab landed their biggest mission. Meet the women playing a critical role in Maharashtra’s fight against COVID’s latest variant By Anju Maskeri Dr Jayanthi Shastri, professor and head of the microbiology department at BYL Nair hospital, was in the US last December to visit her children, when a new COVID variant, Alpha (B.1.1.7), was identified in the UK.

© Provided by Mid-Day All those in the inner circle of Pankti Chheda, a Mumbai-based entrepreneur and founder of Moving Meals, know that she’s more of “voice-note kind of person” than a compulsive texter. This preference extends to online dating too. And for good reason, she says. “There are a lot of fake profiles and catphishing that go on [on dating apps]. So, I prefer to hear someone speak.