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The Lady in the image has a Limca record in her name for donating blood 139 times in her lifetime.
Her story is a text book example of a woman who made it big in the male dominated society, alas, she never made into the good books of Red Bindi Brigade.
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Thanjavur Santhanakrishna Kanaka was a pioneer in neurosurgery, as one of the first neurosurgeons in the world and the first female neurosurgeon in Asia.
She was the first neurosurgeon in India to perform chronic electrode implants in the brain & first to perform deep brain
stimulation as early as in 1975.
Dr. Kanaka was born on this day in 1932 at Madras. She decided to dedicate her life to helping patients after her brother died of an unknown illness at the age of 9.
This tragedy influenced Kanaka's decision to remain unmarried and instead
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Her story is a text book example of a woman who made it big in the male dominated society, alas, she never made into the good books of Red Bindi Brigade.

#TSKanaka (Thanjavur Santhanakrishna Kanaka) was a pioneer in neurosurgery, as one of the first neurosurgeons in the world
and the first female neurosurgeon in Asia.
She was the first neurosurgeon in India to perform chronic electrode implants in the brain & first to perform deep brain stimulation as early as in 1975.

Was she just a life saving doctor? No she was a life saving blood donor too…
Dr Kanaka, has a Limca record in her name for donating blood 139 times in her lifetime.
Dr. Kanaka was born on this day in 1932 at Madras. She decided to dedicate her life to helping patients after her brother died of an unknown illness at the age of 9.
This tragedy
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