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Arvind Dani
In the Department of Pharmacology at Government Medical College, Nagpur, Arvind Dani occupied a position he had chosen with deliberate modesty. He could have chosen clinical medicine. His…
Rajshree Chaturvedi
The operating theatre at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai is among the most demanding environments in Indian medicine. The neurosurgeons who work there are operating inside the skull; the anaesthesiologist…
Nasrin Gangriwala
Her father gave his children a simple rule he never needed to argue about: that education was the only thing no one could take away from you, not…
Avinash Joshi
In 1973, a young man arrived at Government Medical College, Nagpur, with Rs 200 borrowed from his brother — money scraped together to cover the first month’s expenses…
Pramod Bhise
The man who heads the Department of Microbiology at Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Memorial Medical College in Amravati has three Master’s degrees that have nothing to do with medicine:…
Rajendra Sarda
At night in the boys’ hostel at Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur, the corridors would go quiet after dinner. Then, from somewhere in Hostel 2 or 3 or…
Ravindra Kasat
In June 1983, Ravi Kasat drove back from Nagpur in the early hours, having watched India play West Indies in the World Cup Final on the big screen.…
Satish Bhaskarwar
The Latin phrase Primum Non Nocere — first, do no harm — is among the oldest precepts in medicine. Most doctors know it. Satish Bhaskarwar lives by it,…
SP Kalantri
In early May 1982, Wardha lay still under summer heat. A young physician sat in a house in Jajoo Wadi, suspended between two possible lives. One was already…
Rajan Bindu
The icing on the cake, Rajan Bindu has called it: the morning the visitors came. His son Ameya had stood first in the HSC board examination, and for…
Omprakash Bohra
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…
Nandkishore Chandak
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…
Renuka Tank
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…
Lakshmi Rao
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,…
Vijay Karmarkar
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…
Bharat Kothari
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…
Maitreyan Vasudevan
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…
Vikas Chitnavis
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…
Asha Tungare
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,…
Vijayalaxmi Dongre
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…