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Tuklaram Badodekar
He had a favourite couplet that he carried through his life like a pocket torch: kisike muskurahaton pe ho nisar, kisi ka dard le sake to le udhaar,…
Alka Deshpande Dixit
She has practiced medicine in two towns and raised two sons, both of whom became engineers and left for America. She managed the transition from Kurduwadi to Solapur,…
Shakuntala Bhatia
Bundi is a walled city in the Hadoti region of Rajasthan — step-wells, lake palaces, painted havelis, and an old fort above it all. It is 210 kilometres…
Dilip Magarkar
He had hands that people noticed. In the operating theatre, colleagues watched him work with something close to absorption — the precision of the incisions, the economy of…
Hema Deoras
She belonged to the group they called SHARP — Shobha, Hema, Arun, Ravi, Prakash — five students from the later years of the GMC Nagpur 1973 batch who…
Arun Deshmukh
The operating theatre and the ward were the two rooms where Arun Deshmukh and Hema Deoras fell in love. She was learning obstetrics and gynaecology; he was learning…
Ganeshgir Gosavi
The road to the primary health center in Jamthi, near Murtijapur, was not the road Ganeshgir Gosavi had imagined for himself when he entered Government Medical College, Nagpur…
Mohan Gupte
The name Rango Bapuji Gupte does not appear in most school textbooks, but in the family of Mohan Gupte it is spoken with the weight given to founding…
Vijay Thakre
There is a moment Vijay Thakre has not forgotten. He was sitting in a classroom at Vidarbha Mahavidyalaya, Amravati, during his pre-medical year, struggling with everything the city…
Prabhakar Patil
On 28 December 2013, the day after the GMC 1973 batch reunion in Nagpur, Prabhakar Patil’s son Piyush married Supriya in Nanded. The timing was not accidental. The…
Rooplal Lanjewar
They gave him a nickname — Sher. It had nothing to do with ferocity, though Rooplal Lanjewar was not a man easily pushed around. It came from his…
Balkrishna Tayade
Balkrishna Tayade holds a distinction that no other student from the GMC Nagpur class of 1973 can claim: he has two MDs. Not two degrees in the same…
Prakash Kataria
Prakash Kataria was the first in his family to go to college. He came from Chandur Bazar, a small town in Amravati district where his father and uncles…
Narayan Umale
One afternoon during his MBBS years at GMC Nagpur, Narayan Umale held out his hands to Khemraj Wankar — Roll No. 171, a batchmate who had taught himself…
Sudhakar Dupare
For forty years, Sudhakar Dupare went to the same hospital. Not the same type of hospital — the same building, the same department, the same ESIS facility on…
Aruna Gattani Bhala
She was the second woman from the GMC Nagpur Class of 1973 to marry—and she did so with four months of her internship still to run, in the…
Gopal Khadse
He had, by his own account, a career full of challenges — and he meant it as a compliment to the work, not a complaint about his circumstances.…
Ashok Gambhir
He operated an estimated eighteen thousand cataracts over a thirty-year career in public health, and of those, five thousand received intraocular implants. He operated cases that other surgeons…
Ashok Ganjre
He came to Coal India almost by accident — or, more precisely, through a Member of Parliament who happened to know the right people at the right moment.…
Omprakash Agrawal
He is known to his friends as OK — a nickname that has the cheerful accidental aptness of the best nicknames. Omprakash Agrawal is, in the measure that…