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The Lady with the White Coat
Dr. Indira Hinduja: The IVF Story
She gave hope where none existed.
Format
Hardcover
Pages
312
Language
English
Release
2026
Editorial Note
The definitive account of the woman who delivered India's first IVF and GIFT babies — and rewrote what modern Indian medicine could believe about itself.
§ Synopsis
Inside the book.
In August 1986, Dr. Indira Hinduja delivered the first scientifically-documented IVF baby born on Indian soil. Four years later, she did it again with India's first GIFT baby. Between those two births lie four decades of laboratory hours, quiet institutional battles, and a stubborn refusal to let Indian medicine believe it had to import its miracles.
The Lady with the White Coat tells that story in full. Reconstructed through KEM Hospital archives, family papers, patient testimony, and hundreds of hours of interviews with the doctor herself, this is the book Indian medicine has waited for.
§ Table of Contents
Chapters.
- 01Prelude — August 6, 1986
- 02Book I — Karachi to Bombay
- 03Book II — KEM
- 04Book III — Two Babies
- 05Book IV — A Practice, A Movement
- 06Coda — What Hope Looks Like
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§ Press & Reviews
The critics say.
“A landmark biography of a landmark scientist.”
— The Lancet — India Correspondence
“Long overdue, beautifully done.”
— The Hindu Books
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