Dwarkanath kotnis biography books
Kotnis.!
Biography of Dwarkanath Kotnis, , Indian surgeon and a member of the Indian National Congress Medical Mission to China in
Solapur to China: The Forgotten Story of the Indian Doctor Revered by the Chinese
“The army has lost a helping hand; the nation has lost a friend. Let us always bear in mind his internationalist spirit.”
This is how Mao Zedong, the founding father of the People’s Republic of China, mourned the death of Dr Dwarkanath Shantaram Kotnis.
Dr Kotnis was an Indian doctor, who breathed his last in China, after having lived the last five years of his life serving the Chinese soldiers and winning the hearts of millions in the country.
Till this day, he is revered as an icon of Sino-Indian friendship.
This is his story.
Dwarkanath was born on 10 October 1910 in a middle-class family in Solapur, Maharashtra. He was one among seven children in the Kotnis family.
He took up medicine at the Seth GS Medical College in the University of Bombay (Mumbai) with the aim to “practice medicine in different parts of the world.”
The 1930s to 40s were a time of upheaval in both India a