Roll No. 76
General Practitioner
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Pune
Her father gave her a Luna moped in the second semester of first MBBS. He filled the petrol, managed the repairs, and kept the tyres inflated. Her mother ensured that …
Roll No. 77
Anaesthesiologist
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Al Khobar
His father was a lawyer in Bramhapuri — a small town in the Chandrapur forests where the roads narrow and the world slows. Vasantrao Tandale argued cases, managed the rhythms …
Roll No. 78
Surgeon
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Yavatmal
The patient had drooping eyelids, blue nails, and respirations so shallow they barely moved the chest. Krait venom, of the neurotoxic variety, works fast and leaves little margin. In the …
Roll No. 79
Did Not Graduate
He had breakfast in the hostel canteen with VK Patel that morning, as he had on many mornings before. The Pathology second paper was at 2 PM. Nobody who saw …
Roll No. 80
Public Health Specialist
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Nagpur
On winter evenings in July and August — Nagpur winters are brief and mild, and the musicians do not wait for them — a group of men gather at Sudhir …
Roll No. 81
Cardiologist
In November 1973, a shy boy from a Marathi-medium school found his bicycle missing from the GMC cycle stand. He stood crestfallen, sweat on his forehead, too tongue-tied to know …
Roll No. 82
General Practitioner
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Mumbai
His father taught Marathi at a college in Pusad, and enrolled his son in a Marathi-medium primary school in Digras because, as he saw it, there was nothing wrong with …
Roll No. 83
General Practitioner
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Navegaon Bandh
In the winter of 1974, an examination result moved through Government Medical College, Nagpur with the quiet force of genuine surprise. In Anatomy — a subject that routinely defeated even …
Roll No. 84
Otorhinolaryngologist
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Nagpur
The mark of an administrator, someone once said, is not what they build from scratch but what they fix when everyone else has stopped believing it can be fixed. In …
Roll No. 85
General Practitioner
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Amravati
Every Sunday, Narayan Dongre made the journey from Amravati to Yengaon—a village on National Highway 6, about 35 kilometers from Nagpur, where he was born. In his ancestral home, he …
Roll No. 86
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Nagpur
On the first day of her house job in TB and Chest at Government Medical College, Nagpur, Tara Bhat got married. She reported for duty and tied the knot on …
Roll No. 87
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Mumbai
"Now my patients come with a laptop or an iPad," says Sarita Dhawale, "and show me information available on the World Wide Web." She has been watching this change for …
Roll No. 88
Physician
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Amravati
On 7 July 1973, Arun Warkari's birthday, a telegram arrived at his home in Karanja Lad. It announced his admission to Government Medical College, Nagpur. He could not have asked …
Roll No. 89
Anaesthesiologist
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Pune
In the world Jayashree Seolekar entered in 1973, anaesthesiology was considered a support specialty — the discipline that put patients to sleep so that surgeons could do the interesting work. …
Roll No. 90
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Nagpur
Seventy. That's the number the Batch of 1973 links forever with Sonkusare. Seventy times, he stretched out on the blood donation couch, extended his forearm, watched the needle pierce his …
Roll No. 91
Physician
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Nagpur
In 1974, Uday Gupte went looking for a mandolin teacher in Nagpur and found none. The one mandolin available at a shop in town was damaged beyond repair. Another person …
Roll No. 92
Pathologist
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Mumbai
There is a story Vinayak Sabnis tells about the early years of his postgraduation. He had been made a lecturer in Pathology at GMC Nagpur in September 1979 — before …
Roll No. 93
Entrepreneur
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Akola
The school principal at RLT College, Akola, had a particular method of punishing misbehaving students. He would present them with an unseen paragraph in English and instruct them to memorise …
Roll No. 94
Surgeon
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Nagpur
"When I die and go to heaven and God asks me 'I gave you this gift, what have you given to the people in return?' I would say, 'Dear God, …
Roll No. 95
Haematologist
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Pune
On May 6, 2026, an email pinged into my inbox from Harish Motwani, retired Army Colonel turned haematologist: "I'm in my third (and possibly the last) innings. I've hung my …
Roll No. 96
General Practitioner
The posting orders kept coming, and Vishnu Masram kept obeying them. Satgaon. Yengaon. Karwahi. Rohana. Each a primary health centre somewhere in the rural stretch between Nagpur and the Wardha-Gondia …
Roll No. 97
Public Health Specialist
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Latur
In 1976, the male students of GMC Nagpur's hostel had a benchmark for physical fitness that no textbook had prescribed: Ganesh Ramteke's abdominal muscles. He had arrived at GMC as …
Roll No. 98
Orthopaedic Surgeon
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Delhi
In June 1980, when Shobha Dani chose Orthopaedics at Government Medical College, Nagpur, there were exactly 12 women orthopaedic surgeons in India. The raised eyebrows were numerous; the predictions were …
Roll No. 99
Physician
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Nagpur
Mahendra Sawarkar has spent his professional life studying what conventional medicine cannot fully explain — first the lungs, then the body's own capacity to heal itself — and has arrived …
Roll No. 100
Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
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Ahmednagar
The Athare Patil Hospital at Savedi, on the Nagar-Manmad road outside Ahmednagar, is the kind of institution that takes decades to build and a certain kind of person to sustain. …