Roll No. 51
Pathologist
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Paratwada
He was among the youngest in his batch to marry. He and Usha began their life together on 4 July 1979, while many of his classmates were still preparing for …
Roll No. 52
Physician
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Amravati
In the spring of 1977, with the Emergency freshly lifted and India counting its votes through the night of 19 March, Nandkishor Chandak organised a Kachha Chiwra party on the …
Roll No. 53
Psychiatrist
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Metuchen
Her father turned a hundred years old in December, and the entire family gathered to mark the occasion. He had been a physician himself — a doctor who had watched, …
Roll No. 54
General Practitioner
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Nagpur
For twenty years, Lakshmi Rao has been running through the streets of Nagpur before dawn, searching for stray dogs. She finds them in the lanes near MB Estate, on the …
Roll No. 55
Paediatrician
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Chandrapur
Vijay Karmarkar wanted to build hospitals. He ended up working in one instead. As a boy in Chandrapur, he was absorbed by buildings, drawings, and structures — the way spaces …
Roll No. 56
Paediatrician
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Vapi
Dr. Anand Mohan Sur was not a man who wasted words. When the head of the Department of Paediatrics at Government Medical College, Nagpur, stood before his students and spoke …
Roll No. 57
Oncologist
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Chennai
At his farewell from the Rajya Sabha in July 2019, Maitreyan Vasudevan broke down. He had served three terms in the upper house, had known its rituals and its rhythms …
Roll No. 58
Gastroenterologist
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Salem
There is a way a good captain reads a cricket match — not only the ball in the air but the shape of the day, the mood of his bowlers, …
Roll No. 59
Gynaecologist
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Khandwa
Khandwa sits 110 kilometres northwest of Indore in the Nimar plains of Madhya Pradesh — cotton country, a town with a railway junction and a civil hospital and, for several …
Roll No. 60
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Pune
When Vijayalaxmi Kane finished her DGO at GMC Nagpur, she held a qualification and almost nothing else. The training had been six months long — barely enough time to watch, …
Roll No. 61
Anaesthesiologist
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Navi Mumbai
The mechanical ventilator breathes for you. It does not consult you about pace or rhythm or volume. It simply continues, indifferent to discomfort, indifferent to panic, indifferent to the hours …
Roll No. 62
Surgeon
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Buldhana
In the district hospitals of Vidarbha in the early 1980s, a surgeon did not choose his cases. He took what arrived: the ruptured uterus at midnight, the fractured femur from …
Roll No. 63
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Nagpur
There is a cartoon that Meena Patil drew in the GMC college magazine — two women talking and watering a small plant; in the next frame, the plant has grown …
Roll No. 64
General Practitioner
The laughing triumvirate of the GMC 1973 batch — Satyanarayan Rathi, Laxmikant Rathi, and Ravi Kasat — was not a formal arrangement. No one elected them, no one gave them …
Roll No. 65
Public Health Specialist
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Toronto
There is an unusual detail at the centre of Sandhya Atre's life: she was born in Ward 19 of Government Medical College Hospital, Nagpur. Her parents — both GMC Nagpur …
Roll No. 66
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
She had a laugh that Sandhya Mohgaonkar still remembers as dilkhulas — open-hearted, without reservation, the kind that fills a room and lingers after the person has left. Sujata Pandya …
Roll No. 67
General Practitioner
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Nagpur
Every weekday, Milind Dangre sees about 50 patients at his clinic on Wardha Road. One in five pays nothing. This has been true for 40 years. His consultation fee when …
Roll No. 68
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Pune
In 2005, after more than a decade in gynaecology practice, Sanjivanee Kotibhaskar walked away from her clinic and into a Brahma Kumaris ashram. She was not in crisis. She was …
Roll No. 69
Public Health Specialist
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Mangalore
At fifteen, Vimala Iyer read Swami Vivekananda. The books did not produce an immediate transformation — she was still a schoolgirl in Nagpur, still years from medicine, still years from …
Roll No. 70
Professor of Physiology
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Pune
"How best can you sum up your gains and losses?" SP Kalantri asked him. Arun Kowale considered the question. "Well," he said, "I have added years to my life and …
Roll No. 71
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Mumbai
In Chembur, where the city thins into something almost residential, Paranjpe Maternity Home has occupied the same address for nearly four decades. Hari built it after returning from a spell …
Roll No. 72
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Dondaicha
The government did not always post him where he wanted to go. He had volunteered for Melghat — the tribal belt in Amravati district, among the most neglected areas in …
Roll No. 73
Physician
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New Delhi
On 17 September 2017, a journalist from Nedrick News sat across from the Additional Director General of Health Services and asked him to defend the often-maligned machinery of India's public …
Roll No. 74
Pathologist
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Nagpur
At the Kanhere Pathology Laboratory on Deendayal Nagar, Nagpur, two microscopes were almost always in use. Uday sat at one. His wife Uma — Ranjana Kulkarni before their marriage, a …
Roll No. 75
General Practitioner
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Nagpur
At a clinic in Sadar, Nagpur, patients arrive who were first seen by Ajit Pradhan's grandfather. Then by his father. Now by Ajit himself. Three generations of the same family …