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Manik Khune
Manik Khune was born in Bramhapuri, a small town 115 kilometres southeast of Nagpur, in the heart of Vidarbha. He began his schooling at Zilla Parishad School, Bramhapuri,…
Suhas Jajoo
At 4:30 every morning, while Wardha is still asleep, Suhas Jajoo is already scrubbed and standing at the operating table. By the time the city stirs, he has…
Waqar Mohiuddin Taji
In the consulting room on Badnera Road, Amravati, the question comes up often enough that Waqar Taji has learned to expect it. A patient — or a colleague,…
Pratibha Deshmukh
At some point in her four decades at the operating table, Pratibha Amin arrived at a formulation that she delivers with the timing of someone who has said…
Thomas Chacko
The most challenging position Thomas Chacko held during his student years at GMC Nagpur was not academic. It was goalkeeper on the college hockey team — a position,…
Deepak Bahekar
In 1971, Deepak Bahekar held an IIT Powai admission letter in one hand and his father’s opinion in the other. His father was a drawing teacher who had…
Shyam Bawage
In 1974, Shyam Bawage had been at GMC Nagpur for barely two months. He had not yet sat his first MBBS examination. And yet his classmates were already…
Atiya Gopalani
She was the first female obstetrician and gynaecologist in Olney, Maryland, when she opened her practice there in 1988. The town had not had one before. Over the…
Vijay Kherde
Vijay was born in Shegaon — a town in Buldhana district known less for medicine than for the Gajanan Maharaj temple that draws pilgrims from across Maharashtra. His…
Ramvallabh Rathi
Manik Khune, who knew him from their internship days at Akola and Deolapar, wrote of him after his death with the precision of a man who had watched…
Samina Ali
When Samina Ali’s father graduated from Government Medical College, Nagpur in 1947 — in the college’s inaugural batch — the institution was just finding its feet, and Indian…
Suresh Batra
When the interview panel at Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering — later VNIT — called Suresh Batra in 1983, his MD practicals were already underway. Dr. G.K. Dubey…
Sanjeev Saoji
The book that made Sanjeev Saoji a psychiatrist was not a textbook. It was The Passions of Mind by Irving Stone — a novel about Sigmund Freud, read…
Pradeep Sambarey
In the late 1970s, a young man from Nagpur’s Institute of Science walked into the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Government Medical College and announced, in effect,…
Sanjeev Chandorkar
The house is 105 years old. Four generations of doctors have practised medicine within its walls — grandfather, father, son, grandson — in an unbroken line that runs…
Rajeev Laul
He runs at 58 years old. Not jogging — running. At the 2015 Mumbai Half Marathon, he clocked 2 hours 13 minutes, his seventeenth half marathon, his personal…
Madhushree Madhankar
The chocolate was small — a single piece, shared between friends — but in the context of their lives at that moment, it was luxury enough to count…
Harshvardhan Sheorey
In late 1977, as the final MBBS examinations loomed over Government Medical College (GMC) Nagpur, a violent scooter accident nearly ended a career before it began. Harshvardhan Sheorey,…
Jayant Pande
He played the Congo, the Bongo, and the Mandolin in the GMC auditorium, and took first rank in all three MBBS examinations. Both things are true of Jayant…
Shriniwas Shelgaonkar
The workshop near GMC square had no name above the door, but it was well-kept — some said it was cleaner than an operating room. The man who…