always had a smile on his face laursen said our research team was particularly close to abhijit he was very well read in both poetry and literature and enjoyed conversation with others about what they were readingmahato said on his webpage that his upbringing was in kolkata the city of joy the city of intellectuals and much much moreread this in hindi integrative biology new delhi and was led by iit jodhpur and the institute of life sciences bhubaneswarother collaborating institutes include the academy of scientific and innovative research ghaziabad council of scientific and industrial research center for cellular and molecular biology hyderabad and national center for disease control new delhi