In any other country, this Doctor would've received highest civilian awards for his contribution for his services.
Alas, this is India!
Story of Dr A V Baliga, Surgeon, Freedom Fighter who fought against British & Portuguese.
Dr. A. V. Baliga was born on April 26, 1904
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in Kallianpur, Udupi.
Finishing his primary education at his village, Baliga joined Christian High School in Udupi.
In 1920, when MKG gave a call to students to leave educational institutions run by the British, Baliga left the school, and he was not readmitted because
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he was the leader who called for boycott.
Subsequently, he joined the National School in Udupi, which was affiliated to the Gujarat Vidyapeeth, a nationalist institute.
Dr. Baliga passed his matriculation, but since the British did not recognize that matriculation, he
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could not join the M.B.B.S Course. He was forced to join the L.C.P.S course at the National Medical College, Bombay.
Dr. Baliga also had to finance his education by means of private tuitions. He finished his L.C.P.S course by standing first in the examinations.
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He caught the attention of Dr. G. V. Deshmukh of K.E.M Hospital and was appointed as a House Surgeon under him. He also worked as a House Physician, Anesthetics and a Casualty Officer. However, Dr. Baliga was meant for greater things. He proceeded to the United Kingdom for
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his fellowship. He went on to complete the London Matriculation, L.R.C.P, M.R.C.S and finally F.R.C.S. He returned to India in 1933 and was appointed as Assistant Honorary Surgeon at the K.E.M. Hospital and also started his private practice. He got married to Kamala in
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December 1933. From then on till 1964 he rapidly rose in stature as a Surgeon both in India and Internationally.
During the Quit India Movement quite a few leaders had gone underground. Prominent among them were Mr. Jayaprakash Narayan, Mr. Achyuth Patwardhan and
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Mrs. Aruna Asif Ali. He sheltered them at great personal risk. Exposure would have meant jail and the end of his professional career. That, however, did not deter him from doing his duty for the freedom of the country.
Even after Independence, Dr Baliga was actively
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involved in Goa Liberation Movement.
Dr. Baliga’s forte was his diagnosis of difficult cases. He paid great attention to minute details in every operative procedure and was very methodical in post-operative care.
Dr. Baliga was also largely instrumental in establishing
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the Kumta College of Arts and Sciences (now renamed as Dr. Baliga college). He also helped in establishing the M.G.M. College in Udupi, Kasturba Medical College in Manipal and Orthopedic Children’s Hospital in Haji Ali. He was a founder member of the Association of
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Surgeons of India.
Dr Baliga had a dream of becoming a journalist and publisher, this dream became a reality with the publishing of the "PATRIOT", a daily, and "LINK", a magazine through which he could express independent social and political views.
The Disgruntled 2nd
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rung Communist leaders who were disenchanted with China favouring Commis gave leads to Dr Baliga who was also the President of Indo-Soviet Cultural Union.
(This news appeared in CIA Archived Document, which says Nehru Menon were responsible for failure against China
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even after receiving multiple alarms)
Dr A V Baliga, passed away in 1964...
Nobody knows how or when..
This is the way we remember our heroes.
What Modi government has done for healthcare questioned Lutyens Elite?
India recorded 5 lakh child deaths annually (2009 Data) due to vaccine preventable diseases. As a strategic endeavor, this government launched #MissionIndradhanush when they were yet to learn how to spell
vaccination.
Do read about this wonderful initiative launched by @PMOIndia@JPNadda on 25th Dec 2014 which has delivered exemplary results.
To prevent Mortality & Morbidity rate in Children,
Immunization Prog was introduced in 1978 as ‘Expanded Programme of Immunization’ (EPI).
In 1985, the programme was modified as ‘Universal Immunization Programme’ (UIP) to be implemented in phased manner to cover all districts in the country by 1989-90.
Despite being operational for many years, UIP has been able to fully immunize only 65% children in the first year
AN EQUATION FOR ME HAS NO MEANING UNLESS IT REPRESENTS A
THOUGHT OF GOD
Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Ramanujan was a child prodigy and a mathematical genius. Irrespective of having little or no access to having exposure to advanced mathematics, he turned out to be genius as a kid!
Ramanujan could not survive for long, He joined Lotus's Feet at the age of 33 on April 20, 1920, but even in his short-lived life, he etched a mark in the world of Mathematics that nobody can beat.
After his untimely demise, people close to him found a treasure! This treasure
was nothing materialistic but something which was, even more, precious! He left behind a 'notebook' with merely summaries & results in it, with little or no proofs - his personal notebook.
The first notebook had 351 pages with 16 organised chapters & some unorganized material.
When the reader finish reading this tweet, I believe there will be tears in his or her eyes.
An introduction for the unsung hero of this tweet...
HE WENT TO ENGLAND & TOOK JALLIANWALABAGH MASSACRES TO COURT.
” When the only Bharatiya in the viceroy’s council made his way back to
Madras after his resignation, it was an ovation all the way, the like of which had never been seen before in India. There were feasts and entertainments wherever the train stopped and crackers were fired under the wheels of the railway, so much so that there was one continuous
firing for hours.”
125 Years back, he was the @incindia President and till date, the only Malayali who held the reins of Congress.
Sir C Sankaran Nair was born on 11-07-1857, at Mankara, Kerala.
His early education began in the traditional style at home and continued in schools
In total, no fewer than 20 million Soviet citizens were put to death by the regime or died
as a direct result of its repressive policies. This does not include the millions who died in the wars, epidemics and famines that were predictable consequences of Bolshevik policies, if not directly caused by them.
The victims include 200,000 killed during the Red Terror
(1918-22); 11 million dead from famine and dekulakization; 700,000 executed during the Great Terror (1937-38); 400,000 more executed between 1929 and 1953; 1.6 million dead during forced population transfers; and a minimum 2.7 million dead in the Gulag, labor colonies and
While Mr Maun Mohan Singh got accolades for reforms, 2 people who really deserved it were left out...
One was Ex PM P V Narasimha Rao & the other was Maidavolu Narasimham.
Narasimham joined RBI as a research officer in the Economics department and is the
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only governor who rose from the ranks of RBI. He was the thirteenth governor of the RBI from 2 May 1977 to 30 November 1977
Narasimham is popularly called as the architect of modern Indian banking, he had chaired two high-powered committees on banking and financial sector
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reforms.
The first high-powered committee he chaired was in 1991 on the financial system and second one in 1998 on banking sector reforms.
Almost all the reports that are written today on the banking sector start by referencing “Narasimham Committee Report” I and II.