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CSIR - Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology

Women Who Inspire

Selected entries from the Sci-Art and Sci-Poem competitions {held within the institute) are
published in this section.

Art by Himanshi Kapoor

Science without women

The world would still have turned o n its own without romance
Science without women would not have made any sense.
If it wasn't for their self-interest and rebellion
Books would have been oblivious to 'woman' kind whose count is half of- if the population wasa

million.
With her smartness and skills, she learned to turn her own world upside down
And proved that she was more than a nurturer who can touch the sky with her feet still on the
ground.
But imagine a world where 'her' wings were still clipped,
Science with only men, such a world would definitely have flipped.

Men would have been perplexed, fiddling with images of x-ray crystallography,
If it wasn't for Franklin, would Francis, Crick, and Wilkins ever have scored a trophy?
It was a woman who wrote thousands and thousands of codes to help man reach outer space,
If there was n o XX prevalent, would an XY exist in the first place?
An ailing life would still have thrived if DNA was left untouched
If it wasn't for the potential of CRISPR CAS9 system that Duodna and Charpentier repurposed!
Imagine a world where a cure after diagnostics was not possible, all because there was a Curie

Even considering a world of science without women is an issue worth taking to the jury.
So, let's keep this endless discussion to a n end and raise a toast with champagne
Science needs both men and women, they both are equally essential, please support this
campaign.

-Saumya Sharma, CSIR-IGIB

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