Tracing the overlapping lives of my great-grandfather and the hero of the Bombay Plague
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 a...
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