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Chapter Three — Narayana: The Hospital That Learned to Think Like a Factory and Feel Like a Prayer How Dr Devi Prasad Shetty left a London theatre, answered a telephone he should have ignored, and built a city of hearts on a Bengaluru marsh so that a farmer’s child would not be priced like a […]
Chapter Four — AIG: The Tube That Opened a City How Dr D. Nageshwar Reddy left government service because India would not take the stomach seriously, built Asia’s great house of gastroenterology from a day-care room in Hyderabad, and then raised a multi-specialty fortress in Gachibowli so that a liver, a pancreas and a heart […]
Chapter Five — Sankara Nethralaya: The Temple of the Eye How Dr Sengamedu Srinivasa Badrinath kept a promise to a Boston guru, woke his wife before dawn and cancelled America, sold a house on Chamiers Road, and built a not-for-profit hospital whose philosophy is still read like a prayer. People often write it Shankar Nethralaya. […]
Chapter Six — Aravind: The Hospital That Learned from McDonald’s and Answered to a Village God How Dr Govindappa Venkataswamy — Dr V — left the army with twisted fingers, retired at fifty-eight, mortgaged a house in Madurai, and built the world’s most productive eye-care system so that a cataract would no longer be a […]
Chapter Seven — Indira IVF: The House Named for a Wife, Built on a Taboo How Dr Ajay Murdia left a government job with five thousand rupees, opened a male-infertility room on the ground floor of his Udaipur house, named the work after his wife, and with two sons turned a whispered shame into India’s […]
Chapter Eight — Frontier Lifeline: The Hand That Came Home How Dr Kotturathu Mammen Cherian — Joji from the Munnar hills — dissected lizards at ten, learned the heart under Kirklin and Starr, performed India’s first bypass in a railway hospital, built Madras Medical Mission, and then, in 2004, opened a dedicated cardiac house in […]
Chapter Nine — Dr Lal PathLabs: The Twin Born on Hanuman Road How Major S.K. Lal fled Rawalpindi, opened North India’s first private pathology lab in a Delhi house in 1949, and how his son Arvind — born the same year as the lab — took over after a family killing, franchised the needle, and […]
Chapter Nine — Dr Lal PathLabs: The Twin Born on Hanuman Road How Major S.K. Lal fled Rawalpindi, opened North India’s first private pathology lab in a Delhi house in 1949, and how his son Arvind — born the same year as the lab — took over after a family killing, franchised the needle, and […]
Chapter Ten — Max: Air-Conditioning as a Diagnosis How Analjit Singh, youngest son after a Ranbaxy family split, sold a telecom fortune, wrote his own obituary on a consultant’s dare, opened a small centre in Panchsheel Park, and discovered that a man who can buy treatment for a dollar will still pay twenty if someone […]
Chapter Eleven — Sir Ganga Ram: The Hospital That Crossed a Border Twice How an engineer from Mangtanwala turned a desert green, built half of modern Lahore, opened a free hospital in 1921, died in London before Partition, and how his son-in-law — private secretary to Nehru — planted the same name on eleven acres […]
Chapter Twelve — AIIMS: The Princess, the Prime Minister, and a Bill Without Notes How the Bhore Committee asked for a Johns Hopkins in India, Bidhan Roy refused Calcutta, a Kapurthala princess who had been Gandhi’s secretary rose in the Lok Sabha with no prepared speech, New Zealand paid for a foundation stone, and Ansari […]
Chapter Thirteen — KGMC: The Taluqdars Who Bought a College for a Prince How the Maharaja of Vizianagaram’s three lakh was refused in 1870, how Raja Tassaduq Rasul Khan of Jahangirabad stood up at a reception committee in 1905 and proposed a medical college as a gift for the Prince of Wales, how Oudh’s landlords […]
Chapter Fourteen — BHU: The Temple of Learning That Grew a Hospital How Madan Mohan Malaviya, Annie Besant and the Maharaja of Darbhanga got a Viceroy to lay a stone on Basant Panchami 1916, how Gandhi gave his first public speech in India on that campus, how Kashi Naresh founded a 96-bed hospital in 1924 […]
Chapter Fifteen — Agra: The School That Graduated Doctors in the Year of the Revolt How Lieutenant-Governor James Thomason laid a medical school in 1854 to feed the Company’s army, how Surgeon John Murray’s first Indian batch walked out in 1857 while the country was on fire, how four women entered Lady Lyall in 1883, […]
The Surgeon Who Gave Faces and Hope for Free. A story of Padma Shri Dr. Sharad Kumar Dixit
The Surgeon Who Gave Faces and Hope for FreeA story of Padma Shri Dr. Sharad Kumar Dixit On 13 December 1930, in Pandharpur, Maharashtra, a boy named Sharad Kumar Dixit was born into a modest postmaster’s family. He studied medicine, specialised in plastic surgery, and eventually settled in the United States, working at hospitals including […]
The Cardiologist Who Built Affordable Heart Care. A story of Padma Shri Dr. Bhupathiraju Somaraju
The Cardiologist Who Built Affordable Heart CareA story of Padma Shri Dr. Bhupathiraju Somaraju Born on 25 September 1948 (some records note 1946) in Akividu, Andhra Pradesh, Bhupathiraju Somaraju grew up with a quiet determination to heal the heart. He completed his MBBS and MD at Guntur Medical College, then earned his DM in Cardiology […]
The Steady Guide Through Women’s Health. A story of Dr. Gauri Sen
The Steady Guide Through Women’s HealthA story of Dr. Gauri Sen In the busy clinics of Delhi, a dedicated physician named Gauri Sen devoted her career to the care of women across every stage of life. After completing her medical training, she specialised in obstetrics and gynaecology, building decades of experience in reproductive medicine, infertility […]
The Quiet Warrior Against HIV. A story of Padma Shri Dr. Alaka Keshav Deshpande
The Quiet Warrior Against HIVA story of Padma Shri Dr. Alaka Keshav Deshpande In the wards of Mumbai’s J.J. Hospital, a physician named Alaka Keshav Deshpande saw a new and frightening illness arrive in the late 1980s. While many turned away, she stepped forward. In 1990 she opened the city’s first dedicated HIV outpatient department, […]
Laishram Nabakishore Singh
In the quiet lanes of Sagolband Khanam Leirak in Manipur, where the air carried the scent of monsoon earth and wild herbs, a boy named Laishram Nabakishore Singh grew up watching his parents, Gouramani and Dhani, return home each evening with aching backs and empty pockets. They were daily wage labourers. Food was scarce, dreams […]
Natesan Rangabashyam once
In the bustling heart of Madras (now Chennai), where the humid air carried the scent of filter coffee and temple flowers, a young Natesan Rangabashyam once gazed at the sky and dreamed of flying. Born on 5 November 1933 to Dr. Natesan, a gentle general practitioner, and Vittobai, he grew up watching his father tend […]
Atluri Sriman Narayana—
In the sun-baked villages of Andhra Pradesh, where children ran barefoot across dusty courtyards and smiled with gaps where teeth should have been, a quiet revolution began with a dentist’s bag and an unshakable sense of duty. Atluri Sriman Narayana—known simply as A.S. Narayana—was a professor of dental surgery at the Government Dental College in […]
Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy
In the coastal city of Visakhapatnam, where the Bay of Bengal whispered against the shore, a restless boy named Duvvur Nageshwar Reddy once failed Class X and nearly convinced his family he was destined for the garage rather than the operating theatre. Born on 18 March 1956 into a third-generation medical family—his grandfather a pathologist, […]
Gullapalli Nageswara Rao
In a quiet village in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, a boy named Gullapalli Nageswara Rao grew up watching the world through clear eyes and wondering why so many around him could not. Born on 21 September 1945 in Chodavaram to G. Venkateswara Rao and Venkata Lakshmi Narasamma, he completed his MBBS at Guntur Medical […]
Harsh Mahajan
In the bustling medical corridors of New Delhi, a young doctor named Harsh Mahajan once looked at an ordinary X-ray film and imagined something far more powerful—images that could peer deep into the living body without a single incision. Born in New Delhi, he completed his MBBS at Maulana Azad Medical College and earned his […]
Dr. Kamaljit Singh Paul
In the operating theatres of Wisconsin, where precision is measured in millimetres and hope is restored one careful incision at a time, Dr. Kamaljit Singh Paul has spent decades giving patients back control of their lives. Born in India, he graduated from King George’s Medical College in Lucknow in 1968 and later earned advanced training […]
Karimpat Mathangi Ramakrishnan
In the crowded wards of Chennai’s government hospitals, where the air often carried the sharp scent of antiseptic and the quiet courage of those who had survived fire, a determined young doctor named Karimpat Mathangi Ramakrishnan decided that burn victims deserved more than temporary relief—they deserved a chance to reclaim their lives. Born in 1934, […]
Pradeep Kumar Chowbey
In the early 1990s, when most Indian surgeons still relied on large open incisions, a determined young doctor named Pradeep Kumar Chowbey stood in an operating theatre and quietly decided that surgery could be gentler. Born and trained in Jabalpur, he earned his MBBS and MS in General Surgery from Government Medical College (now Netaji […]
Medical colleges and hospitals
India has more than 800 medical colleges and tens of thousands of hospitals. A complete census of every facility is not practical in one list, but the institutions below are the ones most consistently treated as “famous” and “big”: Institutes of National Importance, the largest teaching hospitals by bed strength, historic medical colleges, leading private […]
(Col.) Prahlad Kumar Sethi
In the quiet consulting rooms of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital in New Delhi, where patients arrive with trembling hands, sudden silences, or the lingering shadow of a stroke, Dr. (Col.) Prahlad Kumar Sethi has spent more than five decades listening carefully to the stories the brain tells. Born on 14 October 1939, he graduated with […]
Prakash Nanalal Kothari
In the bustling corridors of Mumbai’s King Edward Memorial Hospital, where conversations about the body often stopped short of its most private functions, a quiet pioneer named Prakash Nanalal Kothari decided that sexual health deserved the same dignity and scientific attention as any other branch of medicine. A graduate of Mumbai University, he completed his […]
Suresh Hariram Advani
In a Mumbai hospital corridor, a young man in a wheelchair once looked up at the medical college gates and refused to accept the word “no.” Born on 1 August 1947 in Karachi, just days before Partition, Suresh Hariram Advani’s family fled to India and eventually settled in Mumbai. At the age of eight, polio […]
Dr. B. Ramana Rao (Bhogaraju Ramana Rao), Padma Shri
Dr. B. Ramana Rao (Bhogaraju Ramana Rao), Padma ShriPhysician, Cardiologist & Champion of Free Rural Healthcare Bhogaraju Ramana Rao was born in Hyderabad; his parents came from West Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. He completed his MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, in 1973 and MD in Medicine and Cardiology from Bangalore Medical College in […]
Sheo Bhagwan Tibrewal
The Bridge Between Continents in Orthopaedics Born in Bihar to Mohan Tibrewal, Sheo Bhagwan Tibrewal graduated in medicine from Ranchi University in 1973. He then crossed the seas to the United Kingdom, where he trained at some of the finest centres of orthopaedic excellence—the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford, St Bartholomew’s Hospital, and the Royal […]
Ashok Kumar Hemal
The Pioneer of Robotic Urology On 5 September 1960, in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh, Ashok Kumar Hemal was born. He studied at Gajra Raja Medical College in Gwalior and went on to specialise in urology, eventually becoming one of the foremost names in minimally invasive and robotic surgery for cancers of the kidney, prostate and bladder. […]
Harpinder Singh Chawla
The Guardian of Children’s Smiles Born on 15 March in Amritsar, Punjab, to Sukhdev Singh and Iqbal Kaur Chawla, Harpinder Singh Chawla grew up in the shadow of the Golden Temple. He graduated in dentistry from the Government Dental College and Hospital, Amritsar, in 1967 and completed his postgraduate specialisation in pedodontics and preventive dentistry […]
Narmada Prasad Gupta
The Master of the Urinary Tract Narmada Prasad Gupta graduated MBBS from Government Medical College, Jabalpur, in 1970, followed by an MS in General Surgery from the same institution in 1974. He then moved to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, where he completed his MCh in Urology in 1977 and […]
Kallipatti Ramasamy Palaniswamy
The Builder of Digestive Care in Tamil Nadu Born on 15 March 1949 in the village of Kallipatti in Erode district, Tamil Nadu, into an agricultural family, Kallipatti Ramasamy Palaniswamy grew up far from the great medical centres. He graduated MBBS from Mysore University in 1972, earned his MD in General Medicine in 1977, and […]
Mayil Vahanan Natarajan
The Saviour of Limbs Born on 24 December 1954 in Chennai, Mayil Vahanan Natarajan grew up in the shadow of a distinguished orthopaedic tradition. His father, Dr. Mahalinga Moorthy Natarajan, had served for nineteen years as Professor of Orthopaedics at Madras Medical College. Following that path, the young doctor completed his MBBS, D.Ortho and MS […]
Jagjit Singh Chopra
The Founder of Neurology at PGIMER Born on 15 June 1935 in Lahore (then British India), Jagjit Singh Chopra completed his early education in Fazilka and graduated in medicine from Government Medical College, Patiala, in 1959. After a house job in India he trained in the United Kingdom at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick […]
Nirmal Kumar Ganguly
The Steward of India’s Medical Research Born in 1941, Nirmal Kumar Ganguly graduated MBBS from R.G. Kar Medical College in Kolkata and earned his MD in Microbiology from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh. He later served as Acting Director of that same institute and went on to hold leadership roles […]
Malvika Sabharwal
The Pioneer of Gentle Gynaecology Born in New Delhi, Malvika Sabharwal graduated MBBS from Lady Hardinge Medical College and completed her postgraduate diploma in Obstetrics and Gynaecology from the same institution and further training at Government Medical College, Patiala. She then specialised in advanced endoscopic techniques—learning laparoscopy under Dr. Adam Magos at the Royal Free […]
Jitendra Kumar Singh
The Cancer Warrior of Bihar Born in 1952 in the village of Majhauni in Banka district, Bihar, to a freedom-fighter father, Jitendra Kumar Singh grew up with a quiet determination to serve. He completed his schooling at SMP School, Jethour, and graduated in medicine from Patna Medical College (then Prince of Wales Medical College) in […]
Deepak Sehgal
The Guardian of Young Lives Born in the mid-1950s, Deepak Sehgal graduated MBBS from Agra University in 1975 and completed his MD in Paediatrics from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, in 1980. He dedicated his career to the care of children, rising to become Director and CEO of Phoenix Hospital in Greater […]
Indu Bhushan Sinha
The Father of Nephrology in Bihar Born on 1 January 1938 in Supaur Jamua village of Munger district, Bihar, Indu Bhushan Sinha grew up in a modest government-servant household. He graduated from Patna Medical College in 1960 and later completed postgraduate training in general medicine and dermatology from Patna University. Selected by the Bihar government […]
Keiki R. Mehta
The Father of Phacoemulsification in India Born in 1941 into a Parsi family in Maharashtra, Keiki R. Mehta graduated MBBS from Christian Medical College and earned his MS in Ophthalmology from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh. He further trained at Moorfields Eye Hospital and the Institute of Ophthalmology in London under […]
Rakesh Kumar Jain
The Beacon of Healing in the Doon Valley Born into a modest family in Dehradun, where his father Champat Rai Jain ran a small business from Jain Colony, Rakesh Kumar Jain grew up with a restless curiosity and a booming voice that could fill a courtyard. At Sadhu Ram School and Inter College he excelled […]
Raman Kapur
The Pioneer of Medical Acupuncture in India Born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, Raman Kapur completed his MBBS from University College of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in the late 1970s and began his medical career with a residency at Safdarjang Hospital. In 1982 he opened his own clinic in the capital, drawn early to the ancient healing […]
Randhir Sud
The Master of the Digestive Tract Randhir Sud graduated MBBS from Government Medical College, Amritsar, in 1977, standing first in his professional examinations. He moved to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, where he completed his MD in General Medicine in 1981 and DM in Gastroenterology in 1983, remaining on the […]
S. Tony Fernandez
The Gift of Sight from Angamaly Born in Kerala, S. Tony Fernandez completed his basic medical education at Manipal and pursued specialised training in ophthalmology in England, earning a Diploma from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, London, followed by an MS from Madurai Medical College and FRCS from Glasgow. Additional training at Moorfields […]
Tatyarao Pundlikrao Lahane
The Surgeon Who Restored a Hundred Thousand Sights Born on 12 February 1957 in the village of Makegaon in Latur district, Maharashtra, to farmer parents Pundlikrao and Anjanabai, Tatyarao Pundlikrao Lahane grew up in hardship as one of seven children. At a young age both his kidneys failed; his mother donated one of hers so […]
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