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His wife, Harsha, an academic who rose to become Vice Principal and later Chief Administrative Officer of LAD and SRP College, shared that sense of discipline. Their daughters built their own paths\u2014Ritika, a Cornell-trained heritage architect restoring landmarks like the Rajabai Tower, and Radhika, who moved from telecommunications to psychology and now works in mental health. The family\u2019s achievements unfolded quietly, without display, each pursuing their own line of work with similar seriousness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Looking back from 2026, Jharia does not dwell on what did not happen. He sees instead a series of redirections. The impulse that set him in motion in 1973\u2014the need to keep learning\u2014remains intact. Even now, he has completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Cardiology from the Royal College of Physicians, UK, not as an addition to his credentials but as a continuation of habit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n His practice in Wadi has spanned over four decades. The hours are fewer now, the pace more measured, but the instinct remains unchanged. He still meets patients with the same attentiveness he carried on his first day\u2014listening closely, thinking carefully, and working with steady intent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In September 2020, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The treatment was long\u2014a four-hour surgery followed by thirty-nine sessions of radiation\u2014unfolding during the uncertainty of the pandemic. Yet he continued to work, seeing patients in the morning and going for treatment in the afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Complications followed over the next three years, requiring repeated procedures. These slowed him, but did not alter his direction. He adjusted, continued, and remained present in his practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In July 2024, the IMA Nagpur honoured him with a Lifetime Achievement Award\u2014a recognition of more than four decades of continuity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He often returns to a simple line: do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path, and leave a trail behind. What once appeared as loss now reads as direction. The life he did not live has faded. The one he built has deepened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In Wadi, in a clinic opposite Pillar 23, he remains\u2014not as someone passing through, but as someone who stayed. And in that staying lies the measure of his work: not titles or degrees, but the quiet trust of those who return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/gmc73-ravindra-kharia-daughters-1024x917.jpg\")
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\n\n\nLife Today: Upheavals and Anchors<\/h2>\n\n\n
\n\n\nIllness, Without Interruption<\/h2>\n\n\n