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Sunita Mutha (Jain)
In May 1987, Sunita Jain opened the first private nursing home in Dhamtari, a town of some eighty thousand people situated 85 kilometres southwest of Raipur, in what…
Shriram Kane
In the fourth standard, Shriram Kane was handed a sitar. He did not put it down. More than six decades later, he still practises weekly — refining a…
Vivek Deshpande
He named his sons after music directors. When the first boy arrived in 1987, Vivek Deshpande did not reach for a family name or a deity. He reached…
Vilas Tambe
When Vilas Tambe entered his critical care unit, the outside world ceased to exist. “At times I do not see the outside world for weeks,” he once said…
Alka Bahekar
The fortress of the ladies’ hostel, as Deepak Bahekar would discover in 1976, was not entirely impregnable — if you painted well enough. He sent portraits inside. Alka…
Siddhartha Kumar Biswas
In 1982, while still a resident in internal medicine at Government Medical College, Nagpur, Siddhartha Kumar Biswas designed a new biopsy needle for kidney and liver biopsies. He…
Nandkishor Kasturwar
The Mother Before he became a professor of community medicine, before the decades of government postings across half of Maharashtra, before the long arc from Yavatmal to Nagpur…
Avinash Deshmukh
The Ear Specialist Friends have been teasing Avinash Deshmukh for decades with the same old pun — “Lend me thy ear” — and he has long since stopped…
Pratibha Thakre
The Collector’s Daughter Her father was an administrative officer who rose to the rank of Collector — a position that, in the Indian bureaucracy, means movement. Pratibha Thakre’s…
Sharadchandra Adoni
On 2 January 2014, Sharad Adoni walked into a hospital in Nagpur as a patient and came out, a few days later, as a man with three new…
Kailash Murarka
For forty-two years—ever since launching his private practice after earning his MS—Dr. Kailash Murarka has made the weekly pilgrimage from Akola back to Shegaon, his hometown, where he…
Dhirendra Wagh
In the winter of 2021, with his health failing and his diagnosis now certain, Dhirendra Wagh attended his daughter Rutuja’s wedding. She married Indrajeet Gohokar — the son…
Vivek Kulkarni
The boys’ common room during lunch recess was the loudest room in GMC Nagpur. Vivek Kulkarni ran it. He would plant himself at the centre of the noise,…
Pramod Bangde
In April 1983, Pramod Bangde set up a pathology laboratory in Chandrapur when there was one other laboratory in the entire city, and a handful of tests anyone…
Rekha Sapkal
Fifteen thousand tubectomies. Over thirty years, in the primary health centres scattered around Paratwada, Rekha Shete performed fifteen thousand tubectomies — a number that represents fifteen thousand women…
Ganesh Kale
A good ENT surgeon, Ganesh Kale will tell you, must carry perfection into every moment from the time the patient goes under to the moment they wake without…
Aziz Khan
The first thing Aziz Khan built was a practice. The second thing he built was a hospital. But before either of those, in the mid-1980s, what he built…
Pradeep Indurkar
Pradeep Indurkar has administered or supervised anaesthesia in more than 5,000 major cases and as many minor ones across a career that has crossed five states, two countries,…
Kishore Kedar
The sentence Kishore Kedar uses to describe forty years of cardiology is short enough to fit on a prescription slip: “My job is to make breathless patients breathe…
Vidya Sontakke
She keeps her answer to the question of interests deliberately brief, and the half-smile that accompanies it says as much as the words do: “I love reading and…