{"id":12817,"date":"2026-05-05T01:27:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T19:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/?page_id=12817"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:33:16","slug":"portraits1973","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/portraits1973\/","title":{"rendered":"Classmates"},"content":{"rendered":"\n   <div class=\"gmc73-archive-wrapper\">\n        <!-- \u2500\u2500 Institutional Header (Centered & Two-Line) \u2500\u2500 -->\n<header class=\"gmc73-header\">\n    <h1 class=\"gmc73-title\">\n        <span class=\"gmc73-title-sub\">The Profiles<\/span>\n    <\/h1>\n    <p class=\"gmc73-subtitle\">Meet the 204 classmates. 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He began his schooling at Zilla Parishad School, Bramhapuri, before a &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 2<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/suhas-jajoo\/\">Dr. Suhas Jajoo<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Plastic Surgeon \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Wardha                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        At 4:30 every morning, while Wardha is still asleep, Suhas Jajoo is already scrubbed and standing at the operating table. By the time the city stirs, he has completed two &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 3<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/waqar-mohiuddin-taji\/\">Dr. Waqar Mohiuddin Taji<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Homeopath \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Amravati                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        In the consulting room on Badnera Road, Amravati, the question comes up often enough that Waqar Taji has learned to expect it. A patient \u2014 or a colleague, or an &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 4<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/pratibha-deshmukh-a5\/\">Dr. Pratibha Deshmukh<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Anaesthesiologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Nagpur                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        At some point in her four decades at the operating table, Pratibha Amin arrived at a formulation that she delivers with the timing of someone who has said it before &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 5<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/thomas-chacko\/\">Dr. Thomas Chacko<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Community Medicine, Global Health and Medical Education  \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Kuriannur, Pathanamthitta District                         <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        The most challenging position Thomas Chacko held during his student years at GMC Nagpur was not academic. It was goalkeeper on the college hockey team \u2014 a position, he notes, &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 6<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/deepak-bahekar\/\">Dr. Deepak Bahekar<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Physician \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Gondia                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        In 1971, Deepak Bahekar held an IIT Powai admission letter in one hand and his father's opinion in the other. His father was a drawing teacher who had spent his &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 7<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/shyam-bawage\/\">Dr. Shyam Bawage<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Ophthalmologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Nashik                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        In 1974, Shyam Bawage had been at GMC Nagpur for barely two months. He had not yet sat his first MBBS examination. And yet his classmates were already forming queues &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 8<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/atiya-goplani\/\">Dr. Atiya Gopalani<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Obstetrician &amp; Gynaecologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Olney                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        She was the first female obstetrician and gynaecologist in Olney, Maryland, when she opened her practice there in 1988. The town had not had one before. Over the three and &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 9<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/vijay-kherde\/\">Dr. Vijay Kherde<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Otorhinolaryngologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Akola                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        Vijay was born in Shegaon \u2014 a town in Buldhana district known less for medicine than for the Gajanan Maharaj temple that draws pilgrims from across Maharashtra. His father had &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 10<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/rj-rathi\/\">Dr. Ramvallabh Rathi<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        Manik Khune, who knew him from their internship days at Akola and Deolapar, wrote of him after his death with the precision of a man who had watched a difficult &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 11<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/samina-ali\/\">Dr. Samina Ali<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Obstetrician &amp; Gynaecologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Abu Dhabi                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        When Samina Ali's father graduated from Government Medical College, Nagpur in 1947 \u2014 in the college's inaugural batch \u2014 the institution was just finding its feet, and Indian medicine was &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 12<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/suresh-batra\/\">Dr. Suresh Batra<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Physician \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Nagpur                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        When the interview panel at Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering \u2014 later VNIT \u2014 called Suresh Batra in 1983, his MD practicals were already underway. Dr. G.K. Dubey and Dr. &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 13<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/sanjeev-saoji\/\">Dr. Sanjeev Saoji<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Psychiatrist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        The book that made Sanjeev Saoji a psychiatrist was not a textbook. It was The Passions of Mind by Irving Stone \u2014 a novel about Sigmund Freud, read soon after &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 14<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/pradip-sambarey\/\">Dr. Pradeep Sambarey<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Obstetrician &amp; Gynaecologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Pune                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        In the late 1970s, a young man from Nagpur's Institute of Science walked into the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Government Medical College and announced, in effect, that he &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 15<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/sanjeev-chandorkar\/\">Dr. Sanjeev Chandorkar<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Physician \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Narsinghpur                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        The house is 105 years old. Four generations of doctors have practised medicine within its walls \u2014 grandfather, father, son, grandson \u2014 in an unbroken line that runs from the &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 16<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/rajeev-laul\/\">Dr. Rajeev Laul<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Obstetrician &amp; Gynaecologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Thane                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        He runs at 58 years old. Not jogging \u2014 running. At the 2015 Mumbai Half Marathon, he clocked 2 hours 13 minutes, his seventeenth half marathon, his personal best. Cars &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 17<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/madhushree-madhankar\/\">Dr. Madhushree Madhankar<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Pediatrician \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Bilaspur                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        The chocolate was small \u2014 a single piece, shared between friends \u2014 but in the context of their lives at that moment, it was luxury enough to count as celebration. &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 18<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/harshvardhan-sheorey\/\">Dr. Harshvardhan Sheorey<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Medical Microbiologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Melbourne                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        In late 1977, as the final MBBS examinations loomed over Government Medical College (GMC) Nagpur, a violent scooter accident nearly ended a career before it began. Harshvardhan Sheorey, a man &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 19<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/jayant-pande\/\">Dr. Jayant Pande<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Neurophysician \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Nagpur                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        He played the Congo, the Bongo, and the Mandolin in the GMC auditorium, and took first rank in all three MBBS examinations. Both things are true of Jayant Pande, and &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 20<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/shriniwas-shelgaonkar\/\">Dr. Shriniwas Shelgaonkar<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Pharmacologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Nagpur                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        The workshop near GMC square had no name above the door, but it was well-kept \u2014 some said it was cleaner than an operating room. The man who ran it &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 21<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/sunita-mutha\/\">Dr. Sunita Mutha (Jain)<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Obstetrician &amp; Gynaecologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Dhamtari                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        In May 1987, Sunita Jain opened the first private nursing home in Dhamtari, a town of some eighty thousand people situated 85 kilometres southwest of Raipur, in what was then &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 22<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/shriram-kane\/\">Dr. Shriram Kane<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Haematologist \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Nagpur                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        In the fourth standard, Shriram Kane was handed a sitar. He did not put it down. More than six decades later, he still practises weekly \u2014 refining a raga the &hellip;                    <\/div>\n                <\/article>\n                            <article class=\"gmc73-classmate-card\">\n                    <!-- Metadata Header -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-meta\">Roll No. 23<\/div>\n                    \n                    <!-- Doctor Name -->\n                    <h2 class=\"gmc73-card-title\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/sp.kalantri.co.in\/gmc73\/classmate\/vivek-deshpande\/\">Dr. Vivek Deshpande<\/a>\n                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <!-- Short Orange Accent Line -->\n                    <hr class=\"gmc73-name-divider\">\n\n                    <!-- Designation & Location -->\n                                            <p class=\"gmc73-card-info\">\n                            Obstetrician &amp; Gynaecologist   \n                            &nbsp;&middot;&nbsp; \n                            Nagpur                        <\/p>\n                    \n                    <!-- Biography Excerpt -->\n                    <div class=\"gmc73-card-text\">\n                        He named his sons after music directors. When the first boy arrived in 1987, Vivek Deshpande did not reach for a family name or a deity. 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