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Khatija Arif-Jumkhawala
The mechanical ventilator breathes for you. It does not consult you about pace or rhythm or volume. It simply continues, indifferent to discomfort, indifferent to panic, indifferent to…
Vinay Ubarhande
In the district hospitals of Vidarbha in the early 1980s, a surgeon did not choose his cases. He took what arrived: the ruptured uterus at midnight, the fractured…
Meena Patil
There is a cartoon that Meena Patil drew in the GMC college magazine — two women talking and watering a small plant; in the next frame, the plant…
Satyanarayan Rathi
The laughing triumvirate of the GMC 1973 batch — Satyanarayan Rathi, Laxmikant Rathi, and Ravi Kasat — was not a formal arrangement. No one elected them, no one…
Sandhya Mohgaonkar (Atre)
There is an unusual detail at the centre of Sandhya Atre’s life: she was born in Ward 19 of Government Medical College Hospital, Nagpur. Her parents — both…
Sujata Pandya [Mehta]
She had a laugh that Sandhya Mohgaonkar still remembers as dilkhulas — open-hearted, without reservation, the kind that fills a room and lingers after the person has left.…
Milind Dangre
Every weekday, Milind Dangre sees about 50 patients at his clinic on Wardha Road. One in five pays nothing. This has been true for 40 years. His consultation…
Sanjivanee Kotibhaskar
In 2005, after more than a decade in gynaecology practice, Sanjivanee Kotibhaskar walked away from her clinic and into a Brahma Kumaris ashram. She was not in crisis.…
Vimla Iyer
At fifteen, Vimala Iyer read Swami Vivekananda. The books did not produce an immediate transformation — she was still a schoolgirl in Nagpur, still years from medicine, still…
Arun Kowale
“How best can you sum up your gains and losses?” SP Kalantri asked him. Arun Kowale considered the question. “Well,” he said, “I have added years to my…
Haripandit Paranjpe
In Chembur, where the city thins into something almost residential, Paranjpe Maternity Home has occupied the same address for nearly four decades. Hari built it after returning from…
Sudhir Sathe
The government did not always post him where he wanted to go. He had volunteered for Melghat — the tribal belt in Amravati district, among the most neglected…
Adesh Kisanji Gadpayle
On 17 September 2017, a journalist from Nedrick News sat across from the Additional Director General of Health Services and asked him to defend the often-maligned machinery of…
Uday Kanhere
At the Kanhere Pathology Laboratory on Deendayal Nagar, Nagpur, two microscopes were almost always in use. Uday sat at one. His wife Uma — Ranjana Kulkarni before their…
Ajit Pradhan
At a clinic in Sadar, Nagpur, patients arrive who were first seen by Ajit Pradhan’s grandfather. Then by his father. Now by Ajit himself. Three generations of the…
Dhanwanti Vanjani
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…
Viraj Tandale
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…
Prabhat Deshmukh
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.…
Chandrabhan Chattani
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…
Shashikant Khaire
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…