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Subhash Hatey
In Medshi — a village of perhaps a few thousand people on State Highway 204, 46 kilometres from Akola — a schoolmaster named Hatey raised his son to…
Sanjay Gadre
“I met the right people, at the right places and at the right time, and that has made all the difference.” Sanjay Gadre chose Rajkot because it chose…
Chandrashekhar Meshram
In November 2014, at the main auditorium of the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh, Chandrashekhar Meshram was installed as National President of the Indian…
Anand Patil
Anand Patil never came to the reunions. He felt, he had told SP Kalantri, like a stranger among old friends. The years in Gadchiroli — the long hours…
Deonath Nimje
Mundhari is a village in Taluka Mohadi, 46 kilometres north of Bhandara, in the rice-farming belt of eastern Maharashtra. Deonath Nimje was born there to a farmer, grew…
Panjabsingh Chavan
The Man Who Did Everything There is a particular kind of doctor who turns up in small-town Maharashtra and simply does whatever needs doing. He is not a…
Madhusudan Bagdia
The Cobra and the Scalpel When Madhusudan Bagdia was a resident in surgery at Government Medical College, Nagpur, he chose to specialise in Oncosurgery before the word had…
Vrajlal Patel
Keshod is a market town 37 km southwest of Junagadh, mid-Saurashtra, where the land flattens and the roads carry the steady traffic of an agricultural district. It is…
Manik Laxman Hedau
Forty years in a small town was a life’s work. Manik Laxman Hedau arrived in Sanagadi, a village in Sakoli Taluka of Bhandara district—114 km east of Nagpur—in…
Murtaza Akhtar
On 26 April 2001, Murtaza Akhtar was riding his scooter to NKP Salve Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Nagpur, when a vehicle struck him. He arrived at…
Laxmikant Rathod
The boy who began his schooling in Pimpri Forest — a village in Karanja Lad Taluka of Washim district — arrived at Government Medical College, Nagpur in 1973…
Madhukar Parchand
“I was too poor to afford the GMC admission fees,” Madhukar Parchand recalled. “My father had to collect donations from the community to pay Rs 132 — the…
Nandkishor Salampuria
On 7 July 1973, Nandkishor Salampuria received his GMC Nagpur admission letter. It was his birthday. Those who knew him would later say it was arguable the best…
Maya Bhaskarwar Jamkar
“I was a shy and taciturn girl when I came to GMC, Nagpur,” Maya Bhaskarwar said, years after the fact. “The big city, the big medical campus, and…
Ashok Shankar Badhe
Ashok Badhe grew up admiring Prakash Padukone. “To me, he was a lion who played a terrific game,” he recalled. “I had gone to Delhi to watch him…
Alka Vasantlal Parikh
She died of metastatic breast cancer on 16 October 2013, in a private facility in Nagpur. She had told no one about the illness. That discretion — the…
Laxmikant Rathi
“When I started my practice,” Laxmikant Rathi said, “I was the only Psychiatrist in the town — now the number has grown to 15. A common man now…
Satish Deshmukh
He should have been in the class of 1972. A university examination scandal changed that. “I should have been in the 1972 batch,” Satish Deshmukh explained, “but the…
Prahalad Jajodia
There is a particular cohort within the GMC Nagpur class of 1973 who made the journey to the United States — some early, some late, some after long…
Ramesh Chopade
Malegaon is a city of a million people in Nashik district — dense, industrial, and associated in the public memory with a series of communal incidents that have…