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Dr Natesan Punniamurthy, Padma Shri, 2026 — Veterinary Medicine (Ethno-Veterinary Science)
Dr Natesan PunniamurthyPadma Shri, 2026 — Veterinary Medicine (Ethno-Veterinary Science)The farm boy from Vallam who taught a cow to heal with aloe, turmeric and lime — and taught a nation that clean milk begins in a clean udder, not a bottle of antibiotic. 6 March 1957, Vallam village, Thanjavur. Agrarian house. School in Thanjavur and […]
Dr Kewal Krishan Thakral, Padma Shri, 2026 — Ayurvedic Surgery (Shalya–Shalakya)
Dr Kewal Krishan ThakralPadma Shri, 2026 — Ayurvedic Surgery (Shalya–Shalakya)The Partition child who made a medicated thread, and a small puncture at the ear, acceptable to a country that had almost forgotten its own surgeons. Born 10 October 1938, Sargodha — then British India, now Pakistan. The family crossed in 1947 and rebuilt in Yamunanagar. […]
Dr Palkonda Vijay Anand Reddy, Padma Shri, 2026 — Oncology
Dr Palkonda Vijay Anand ReddyPadma Shri, 2026 — OncologyThe Palamuru boy who turned down a London job, came home after his father died, and spent three decades telling parents that even the eye can grow a cancer — and that a white glow in a photograph can still be caught in time. Born 20 October […]
Dr Prateek Sharma, Padma Shri, 2026 — Gastroenterology
Dr Prateek SharmaPadma Shri, 2026 — GastroenterologyThe Vadodara graduate who made Barrett’s oesophagus a language the world could share — Prague criteria on the scope, risk on the page — and then came home, briefly, to take a medal for a life spent in Kansas City. Born in Chandigarh; raised in Vadodara. Parents from Punjab […]
Dr Ramchandra Godbole and Smt Suneeta Godbole, Padma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (joint award)
Dr Ramchandra Godbole and Smt Suneeta GodbolePadma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (joint award)Seven days after the wedding they left Maharashtra for Barsur. The forest called him Doctor Bhaiya. She learned Gondi and Halbi so the women would not have to speak through a stranger. He is a BAMS graduate from Satara. She took her MSW […]
Prof. Shyam Sundar, Padma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (Infectious Diseases / Kala-azar)
Prof. Shyam SundarPadma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (Infectious Diseases / Kala-azar)The Muzaffarpur boy who gave a neglected fever a strip test, an oral pill, and a single drip — and watched the case count fall from tens of thousands to a few hundred. Born 30 November 1953, Muzaffarpur. District school. Banaras Hindu University for everything […]
Dr Suresh Hanagavadi, Padma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (Haemophilia care)
Dr Suresh HanagavadiPadma Shri, 2026 — Medicine (Haemophilia care)The Class 9 boy outside a Harihar OPD whose uncle said, This is why you must become a doctor — and who spent the first internship salary registering a society so no family would lose someone for lack of care. Severe haemophilia B from childhood. Mother a […]
Prof. (Dr) Saroj Mandal, Padma Shri, 2026 — Interventional Cardiology
Prof. (Dr) Saroj MandalPadma Shri, 2026 — Interventional CardiologyThe Kolkata unit head who put twenty-two pacemakers in in nine hours on an ordinary working day at SSKM — and spent the rest of the years taking the same urgency to the village by wire. Born 15 September 1967. MBBS, University of Calcutta, 1994. MD Medicine. […]
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Roshen Master
Pune in the early 1950s still treated psychiatry as something whispered about in corridors. Hospitals had wards. Families had secrets. Women doctors were rare enough. A woman who wanted to sit across from patients in her own consulting room, listen to their fears, and charge a fee for it? That was almost unthinkable. Roshen Master […]
Caesarean rate
Dr. Ruma Satwik still remembered the smell of the sugarcane fields outside the little primary health centre in rural Maharashtra. It was 2000. She was young, newly posted, and she delivered eighteen babies that year. “Most of them never even came here,” she told a junior resident last week, stirring her tea in the staff […]
The Price of Being a Doctor
The Price of Being a DoctorThere is a strange contradiction at the heart of medicine.A patient may walk into a doctor’s room carrying years of pain, fear and uncertainty. The doctor may spend years learning how to understand that suffering, another decade developing judgement and experience, and then several more years building the hospital, clinic […]
Swami Sivananda Saraswati
A Book That Changed a Doctor(The moment Dr. Kuppuswami became Swami Sivananda Saraswati) In Malaya—today’s Malaysia—Dr. Kuppuswami was no ordinary physician. Banks opened on holidays for him. Trains waited. Steamers delayed departure until he boarded. He dressed in fine silks, collected gold rings, gemstones and watches, kept typewriters, gramophones and harmoniums at home. He treated […]
Dr K.C. Tripathi
Sultanpur did not lose a doctor. It lost the man who taught a small city that a failing heart need not travel to Lucknow to be saved. When a young K.C. Tripathi returned from King George’s Medical University with an M.D. in Medicine and a gold medal, well-wishers were blunt. “You’ve done enough,” they said. […]
Doctor death
They said the year left India with a habit of remembering in many mouths at once. One voice is never enough. So the story of Devendra Kumar Sharma is told the same way: not as a single monster’s confession, but as the overlapping testimonies of people who knew the healer before the healer vanished, and […]
Krishna: A Life of Duty Without Rest
The dates below follow a popular traditional chronology that works backward from the Puranic start of Kali Yuga (often given as 18 February 3102 BCE) and from texts that say Krishna lived about 125 years and that the Kurukshetra war came when he was about eighty-nine. Historians do not treat these Gregorian conversions as proven […]
Roshen Master
Pune in the early 1950s still treated psychiatry as something whispered about in corridors. Hospitals had wards. Families had secrets. Women doctors were rare enough. A woman who wanted to sit across from patients in her own consulting room, listen to their fears, and charge a fee for it? That was almost unthinkable. Roshen Master […]
Dr. Dipak Dhar Choudhury
Dr Dipak Dhar Choudhury — also written as Dr D.D. Choudhury or Choudhary — is not a celebrity surgeon of multiplex hospitals. He is the quieter kind of Indian doctor whose name lives in association files, blood-bank registers, and the memory of a state that did not exist when he first hung his stethoscope in […]
Surplus
India has officially hit a record 1,36,939 MBBS seats across 823 medical colleges. We are supposedly solving the national doctor shortage. However, if you read the microscopic fine print, a far darker reality emerges. Of the 9,911 shiny new seats rolled out this year, a modest 2,111 belong to government colleges, while a staggering 7,800 […]
Missing link
There is a missing link between specialists and patients in India due to the absence of a primary coordinating doctor or General Practitioner (GP) who handles long-term care management and brings all medical records together. Key Elements of the “Captain of the Ship” ConceptCentral Oversight: A single doctor oversees the patient’s entire healthcare journey rather […]
सफ़ेद कोट
सफ़ेद कोट की जेब में रखी ज़िंदगी मेडिकल कॉलेज के दिनों में लगता था, बस रेज़िडेंसी मिल जाए, तो ज़िंदगी मुकम्मल हो जाएगी। रेज़िडेंसी में लगा, एक विशेषज्ञ बन जाऊँ, तो शायद सुकून मिल जाए। फिर लगा, नाम हो, पहचान हो, मरीज़ों की लंबी कतार हो, सम्मेलनों के मंच हों, किताबों में मेरा नाम छपे, […]
The Seven Medical Sins
The Seven Medical Sins — first laid out by the sharp-tongued British physician Richard Asher in 1949 — still haunt hospital corridors, outpatient clinics, and Zoom consults today. They are not dramatic scandals or rare malpractice headlines. They are the quiet, everyday failings that turn good doctors into slightly less good ones, and patients into […]
Time frames
Approximate time frames (birth–death ranges), working backwards from your father Krishan/Kishen Chand (1935–1983). These are rough estimates only, based on typical historical generation intervals of about 25–30 years (age of father at the birth of the relevant son) in traditional Indian families, plus average adult lifespans of roughly 55–70 years for those who survived childhood […]
Time frames
Approximate time frames (birth–death ranges), working backwards from your father Krishan/Kishen Chand (1935–1983). These are rough estimates only, based on typical historical generation intervals of about 25–30 years (age of father at the birth of the relevant son) in traditional Indian families, plus average adult lifespans of roughly 55–70 years for those who survived childhood […]
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