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1st woman chief of ZSI in 100 yrs | India News


KOLKATA: Dhriti Banerjee has become the first woman to be appointed as director of the 105-year-old Zoological Survey of India (ZSI).
The appointments committee of the Cabinet on Tuesday approved the proposal for appointment of Dr Dhriti Banerjee, scientist E, Zoological Survey of India (ZSI) as director . . Banerjee will be taking charge some time next week. Speaking to on Wednesday, she said, I believe ZSI s 100-year legacy would help me catapult the organisation to greener and futuristic heights in biodiversity conservation and sustainable development.
The 51-year-old has had an illustrious career as a scientist, conducting research in taxonomy, zoogeography, morphology and molecular systematics. She has been co-ordinator of ZSI s Digital Sequence Information Project since 2012. ....

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Cedric Dover: The Indian entomologist who saved WWII soldiers and fought for people of colour


Cedric Dover.
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Credit: Yale University Library Archives.
In 1948, a case came up for hearing in the California supreme court that challenged one of the very bases of racial segregation. The case was of Andrea Perez, a Mexican American woman. Perez, who was legally considered white because of her Spanish heritage, had been denied the right to marry Sylvester Davis, an African American, because of California’s anti-miscegenation law. An indignant Perez petitioned the supreme court, demanding a marriage licence. The court agreed. It struck down the miscegenation law as unconstitutional by a verdict of four to three. Justice Jesse Carter, one of the judges in the majority, wrote a 3,565-word judgement explaining the decision, in which he chose to cite a book written by Cedric Dover, an Anglo-Indian born nearly 8,000 miles away in Calcutta. ....

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