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Subhash Mukhopadhyay: The Forgotten Kolkata Doctor Who Gave India Its First IVF Baby, and Was Believed Only After His Death

Subhash Mukhopadhyay delivered India's first IVF baby, Kanupriya "Durga" Agarwal, in Calcutta on 3 October 1978, the world's second, just 67 days after Louise Brown. A state committee dismissed his work as bogus, and he died in 1981 before his name was cleared. Anand Kumar's 1997 review and ICMR's later

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