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Dinesh Soni
In the Hindi dramas staged at GMC Nagpur in 1973 and 1974, Dinesh Soni was the man who took home the first prize for best actor. He had…
Maya Gharote
In the late 1960s, a mother in Alipur, a small village in Chandrapur, made a radical decision. Her daughter, Maya, had finished the seventh standard at a school…
Gopal Ingle
Gopal Ingle remembers the mud. To get from his village, Dudulgaon, to the school in Shelgaon Bazar, he had to walk twelve kilometers. By cutting through fields and…
Kailash Ramteke
On August 13, 1973, an eighteen-year-old boy arrived at the Dean’s office in GMC Nagpur with a telegram clutched in his tremulous hands. He was petrified. He had…
Shailendra Kale
In 1983, Shailendra took a short trip to visit his cousin in Ambernath, a small industrial town in the Thane district. He was a young doctor with a…
Alison Saxena
Alison Girling believes in the predictive power of a terrace on a holy night. During her years at GMC Nagpur, she once spent Shivratri at the home of…
Gagan Panjwani
Gagan Panjwani is a man who has mastered the art of staying put. While his classmates were chasing post-graduate degrees across continents, Gagan was building a kingdom within…
Sandhya Manjrekar
Dr. Vikram Marwah, the legendary Dean of GMC Nagpur, once stood for several minutes in front of a Rangoli. It was a depiction of an old man, created…
Raj Mehta
Raj Sharma believes that the best diagnostic tool a doctor possesses is a memory for faces. In the town of Kamptee, just outside Nagpur, Raj has spent three…
Nabatosh Biswas
Nabatosh Biswas spent his early childhood watching the monsoon rains swell the tributaries of the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, and the Meghna. He was born in Sonakhali, in the…
Ashok Ingole
In the collective memory of the GMC Class of 1973, there is a specific, quiet space reserved for those who did not finish the trek. Most profiles in…
Nandkishor Taori
Nandkishor Taori—known to everyone simply as Nandu—had a habit that patients in Malkapur never forgot. No matter the hour, if someone knocked on his door, he went. Midnight…
BH Bahetee
BH Bahetee remembers the fear. In his student days at GMC Nagpur, Anatomy was a “rite of passage” characterized by “awe rather than joy”. Students were expected to…
Omprakash Singhania
In the Vidarbha summer of 1977, while most of the Class of ’73 had fled to the relative coolness of their homes, Omprakash Singhania was designing innovative ways…
Ratna Shekhawat
The Sentinel of Matru Seva Sangh Ratna Mansingh Shekhawat believes that happiness is not a commodity to be bought, but a frequency to be tuned into. For over…
Chandramohan Singh Hajari
In the early 1970s, long before the digital age reduced music to a stream of invisible data, the quality of a man was often measured by the weight…
Raymond Maughan
Raymond Patrick Maughan remembers the old, beat-up ambulance that met him at the Nagpur airport in 1973. He was a “frightened young man” from Barbados who had traveled…
Suresh Satghare
Suresh Satghare remembers the smell of puffed rice (murmure) and roasted grams (phutane) that filled his childhood home. His father, Narayanrao, ran a family business selling these humble…
Wan Chong Looi
Looi Wan Chong was the man who could “cook up a storm” in a Nagpur hostel room. While his foreign classmates were struggling with the cultural shock of…
Vinaykumar Mahajan
Vinay Kumar Mahajan seldom wrote his surname; he preferred to be identified by his first name, just like the cinematic idols of his youth, Rajendra Kumar and Dilip…