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Ross won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the role of the anopheles mosquito in the transmission of malaria. So, we have an Indian who is missing, and a British scientist who is dead but who was from an Anglo-Saxon Western cultural background living and working in an Eastern culture, Calcutta and Secunderabad, India.
On page 37, the Indian, Murugan, is seen as a "crank and an eccentric" because he pursued the history of the malaria research with such passion; his research articles were rejected and it hit him hard, which some of his colleagues took to be an explanation for his "increasingly erratic and obsessional behavior." And when (37) Murugan began to discuss "the so-called 'Other Mind'" th
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