The #Bong pride; The world is looking for “Hydroxychloroquine” for treatment of Covid19 and India is the leading manufacturer of Hydroxychloroquine.

The man behind Hydroxychloroquine is Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy, known as "The father of Indian Chemistry".

was a well-known Indian Scientist, teacher and one of the first modern Indian chemical researchers. He discovered the stable compound mercurous nitrate in 1896. In 1901 Bengal Chemicals was co founded by him, Rajshekhar Basu.

It is the first pharmaceutical company in India, and a leading manufacturer of Hydroxychloroquine. Rajshekhar Basu, better known by his pen name Parashuram (16 March 1880 – 27 April 1960), was a writer, chemist and lexicographer.

He was and is still a house hold name for his comic and satirical short stories, and is considered the greatest Bengali humorist of the twentieth century.

His younger brother was Dr. Girindrasekhar Bose (1887–1953), was India’s first psychoanalyst and of the non-Western world and collaborated with Dr. Sigmund Freud.