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Anil Sharma
In November 1973, a shy boy from a Marathi-medium school found his bicycle missing from the GMC cycle stand. He stood crestfallen, sweat on his forehead, too tongue-tied…
Farhad Ahmed Khan
His father taught Marathi at a college in Pusad, and enrolled his son in a Marathi-medium primary school in Digras because, as he saw it, there was nothing…
Abhimanyu Kapgate
In the winter of 1974, an examination result moved through Government Medical College, Nagpur with the quiet force of genuine surprise. In Anatomy — a subject that routinely…
Prakash Wakode
The mark of an administrator, someone once said, is not what they build from scratch but what they fix when everyone else has stopped believing it can be…
Narayan Dongre
Every Sunday, Narayan Dongre made the journey from Amravati to Yengaon—a village on National Highway 6, about 35 kilometers from Nagpur, where he was born. In his ancestral…
Tara Bhat
On the first day of her house job in TB and Chest at Government Medical College, Nagpur, Tara Bhat got married. She reported for duty and tied the…
Reeta Tikhile [Sarita Dhawale]
“Now my patients come with a laptop or an iPad,” says Sarita Dhawale, “and show me information available on the World Wide Web.” She has been watching this…
Arun Warkari
On 7 July 1973, Arun Warkari’s birthday, a telegram arrived at his home in Karanja Lad. It announced his admission to Government Medical College, Nagpur. He could not…
Jayashree Seolekar [Apte]
In the world Jayashree Seolekar entered in 1973, anaesthesiology was considered a support specialty — the discipline that put patients to sleep so that surgeons could do the…
CL Sonkusare
Seventy. That’s the number the Batch of 1973 links forever with Sonkusare. Seventy times, he stretched out on the blood donation couch, extended his forearm, watched the needle…
Uday Gupte
In 1974, Uday Gupte went looking for a mandolin teacher in Nagpur and found none. The one mandolin available at a shop in town was damaged beyond repair.…
Vinayak Sabnis
There is a story Vinayak Sabnis tells about the early years of his postgraduation. He had been made a lecturer in Pathology at GMC Nagpur in September 1979…
Rajeev Biyani
The school principal at RLT College, Akola, had a particular method of punishing misbehaving students. He would present them with an unseen paragraph in English and instruct them…
Sanjay Warhadpande
“When I die and go to heaven and God asks me ‘I gave you this gift, what have you given to the people in return?’ I would say,…
Harish Motwani
On May 6, 2026, an email pinged into my inbox from Harish Motwani, retired Army Colonel turned haematologist: “I’m in my third (and possibly the last) innings. I’ve…
Vishnu Masram
The posting orders kept coming, and Vishnu Masram kept obeying them. Satgaon. Yengaon. Karwahi. Rohana. Each a primary health centre somewhere in the rural stretch between Nagpur and…
Ganesh Ramteke
In 1976, the male students of GMC Nagpur’s hostel had a benchmark for physical fitness that no textbook had prescribed: Ganesh Ramteke’s abdominal muscles. He had arrived at…
Shobha Dani (Arora)
In June 1980, when Shobha Dani chose Orthopaedics at Government Medical College, Nagpur, there were exactly 12 women orthopaedic surgeons in India. The raised eyebrows were numerous; the…
Mahendra Sawarkar
Mahendra Sawarkar has spent his professional life studying what conventional medicine cannot fully explain — first the lungs, then the body’s own capacity to heal itself — and…
Anjali Sapkal (Athare)
The Athare Patil Hospital at Savedi, on the Nagar-Manmad road outside Ahmednagar, is the kind of institution that takes decades to build and a certain kind of person…