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Archana Srivastava
In her first year at Government Medical College, Nagpur, a seventeen-year-old Archana Srivastava was already reading Sherlock Holmes and being offered roles in professional drama. She declined the…
PD Parmar
The record on PD Parmar is thinner than most. He came from RLT College, Akola — that reliable feeder institution which sent multiple students to GMC Nagpur in…
Maya Wanjari (Brahmane)
There is a cartoon Maya Wanjari drew in the GMC college magazine sometime in the mid-1970s. In the first frame, two women water a small plant and talk.…
Abhimanyu Niswade
There is a palm-reading story in this profile, and it deserves to come first. Khemraj Wankar — Roll No. 171, class of 1973 — had taught himself chiromancy…
Makhanlal Gupta
He used to start his OPD at nine in the morning and work without stopping until eleven at night. Three examination tables. Two assistants. Patients presenting with the…
Madhukar Lanje
The three phases of a medical life — Madhukar Lanje has lived each one with the clarity of a man who knows exactly where he stands. Primary health…
Arun Mankar
He died the way surgeons sometimes die — in harness, on a weekday, not long after finishing an operation. It was the summer of 1993, and Arun Mankar…
Pramila Khapre
She left before the class of 1973 had fully found its shape. Pramila Khapre was in her second MBBS when she died, in April 1976, in the Girls’…
Sudhakar Sawdatkar
“Now the patients have become over smart — questioning, doubting, and challenging almost everything you do for them.” Sudhakar Sawdatkar says this without bitterness. He then immediately adds…
Khemraj Wankar
Khemraj Wankar’s uncle—his father’s elder brother—was a vaidya, a traditional physician in their village in Ralegaon taluka, Yavatmal district. Everyone called him Anna. He wanted his nephew to…
Hemraj Nimje
There is a word in Marathi — *ekla* — that means alone, solitary, without company. Hemraj Nimje’s internship was ekla in the most literal sense: he completed both…
Bhaskar Gadge
He could complete a tubectomy in a couple of minutes. This was not a boast — it was a clinical fact, confirmed by those who worked with him…
Vinod Sawaitul
In the autumn of 1973, barely a fortnight after the new batch arrived at Government Medical College, Nagpur, the seniors came for the first-year students. Ragging was the…
Kashinath Kuhikar
Ask Kashinath Kuhikar why he chose the Central Government Health Scheme over a state government posting or private practice, and he will give you a precise answer. He…
Krishna Chaware
He came to Nagpur with hope in his heart and fire in his belly. The phrase is his classmate Madhukar Parchand’s, and it is offered not as sentiment…
Anjali Kavimandan
In the late 1960s, Lokmanya Tilak Vidyalaya in Chandrapur was a world dominated by boys. In one particular batch, there were only four girls. In a quiet, collective…
Indra Ostwal
Every morning in Parbhani, Indra Ostwal performs a ritual of adjustment. In his clinic, he adjusts the slit lamp to a fraction of a millimeter to observe the…
Yogendra Bansod
Yogendra Bansod believes that for a doctor, the windows must always stay open. “Humility is important if one has to progress,” he says. “It keeps all the windows…
Surendra Bhandarkar
Surendra Bhandarkar’s life is defined by a series of quiet, firm pivots. The first was academic: moving from the science benches of Mohota College to the surgical theaters…
Prakash Bhatkule
Prakash Bhatkule has spent forty years looking at “the community” through the lens of a social scientist. After a career spent rising to the head of the Department…