When bio-technology graduates Aashima Dogra and Nandita Jeyaraj ran a column that explained path-breaking science research in comics for a children's science magazine, they noticed that many illustrators drew scientists as grey-haired old men holding test tubes.
"There was a stereotype about scientists - that they are all elderly men," said Ms Dogra.
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