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