Professor & Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology · Two Tenures at Sevagram · The Corridor That Fell Silent Harda, the Gandhian Father, and the Formation Mrudula Naik was born on January 16, 1941, in Harda, Madhya Pradesh, the fifth of six children of Dadabhai and Anandibai Naik. Her father was a distinguished Gandhian conducting research … Read more
Lecturer in Ophthalmology · Five Years at Sevagram · The Calm That Completed the Sparkle Shimla, Patiala, and the Crucible of PGI Chanchal grew up in Shimla, a hill town whose particular quality of light, crisp air, and rolling landscape grants those raised there a permanent relationship with beauty and calm. It is a quietness … Read more
Reader in Otolaryngology · Ten Years at Sevagram · The Man Who Arrived Single and Left as Four Sagar, the Elder Brother’s Intervention, and the Road to ENT Suresh Kumar Tarachandji Jain was born on February 22, 1956, in Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, the fourth of seven siblings in the household of Shri Tarachandji Jain, an … Read more
Bhopal, Gandhi Medical College, and the Bhopali Formation Raj Mridul Raizada was born on September 16, 1952, into a family of distinction. His father Kailash Bihari Raizada was a Supreme Court advocate based in Bhopal — a man of precision and argument whose professional formation shaped the household’s values. Raj absorbed them and redirected them … Read more
Professor & Head of Otolaryngology · Medical Superintendent · Thirty Years at Sevagram · The Man Who Came Back Mumbai, Delhi, AIIMS, and the Train to Sevagram Vishwanath Chaturvedi was born on November 2, 1941, in Mumbai, into a traditional Brahmin family with roots in Mathura. He studied at Ramjas College, Delhi University, entered AIIMS … Read more
Bhagalpur, Netarhat, and the Making of a Surgeon Naresh Kumar Dhaniwala was born on November 30, 1957, in Bhagalpur, Bihar — a city of silk and shadows, known for its exquisite tussar silk and bearing the dark legacy of the 1980 Bhagalpur blindings. His father ran a cloth shop and later acquired an agency for … Read more
Sasti, Akola, and the First Doctor from the Village Kisan Rajaram Patond was born on February 26, 1956, in Sasti, a village thirty-five kilometres south of Akola. His father was a small farmer with four years of schooling. His mother had no formal education. He completed his primary education in Marathi at Shri S.L. Shinde … Read more
Nainital, Lucknow, Varanasi, and the Making of an Orthopaedic Surgeon Kush Kumar was born on August 8, 1950, in Nainital, his parents Gopal Narayan and Maheshwari Srivastava carrying the gentleness the hills of that city are associated with. He entered King George Medical College, Lucknow, in 1966 — one of India’s oldest and most prestigious … Read more
Professor & Head of Orthopaedics · Deputy Medical Superintendent · Eight Years at Sevagram · The Whim That Was Well-Placed Multan, Kanpur, and the Gold Medals at GSVM Subhash Chandra Ahuja was born on March 6, 1943, in Multan — then Punjab, now Pakistan. Multan carries its own associations in the Indian cricketing imagination as … Read more
The Map He Refused to Follow His family had mapped out his future with exceptional care. His brother-in-law had identified Latur as the exact right city. An uncle had found a prime, highly lucrative location for a surgical nursing home in Jalgaon. He held an MCh in Plastic Surgery from Government Medical College (GMC), Nagpur—which … Read more