From a little boy playing on the banks of the Indus river in Sind, Pakistan, to a medical student at JJ Hospital, to an anesthetist and medical practitioner in Bandra and now a retired storyteller, I am fortunate to have lived life on my own terms.
Gemini
Any harm coming to my children.
With no money, as a refugee from Pakistan, I could settle myself and bring up my family in India.
I graduated as a medical doctor.
When I was diagnosed with thyrotoxicosis.
The “Common Man” in R.K. Lakshman’s cartoons in Times of India.
Somerset Maugham, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Shakespeare, VS Naipaul
Bhagvad Gita
Bhagvad Gita
Andaz, Aarti, Barsat, Anand
To read people’s minds
Lived, Loved, Lost
Ability to judge people.
Razor’s Edge by Maugham.
Staring at the sea from my balcony.
Silence.
Jeene ka bahaana mat kar!
No.
Jump right in!
Dr. Ratan Gajwani was born in Rohri, Sindh, where he was educated in the Sindhi vernacular. After the Partition of India, as with most Sindhi Hindus, he came to Bombay, where he studied medicine. He is a self-taught Hindi speaker. He learned Hindi, by buying and studying a primer, as it was India's national language. Throughout the years, he has gained a strong understanding of languages and has a working knowledge of Hindi and Urdu, besides Sindhi, and English. After completing his medical education and a fellowship in anesthesiology in 1957, he worked at several hospitals in India. In 1972, he had to leave anaesthesiology, due to health problems. He has been practicing as a family physician in Bombay, for over 40 years. In discussing his literary interests, Dr. Gajwani mentioned, Doctors have windows open in many houses. They have the privilege of studying life in the raw. The undercurrents of love and hate in many families are clear to them. I have drawn on some of these to make up stories of my own. Thus, many of my stories have a medical background. Dr. Gajwani has two children and four grandchildren and lives with his wife in Mumbai, India.
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