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Mumbai’s legendary physician, often described pass for the best diagnostician in India, has a divine presence. I can assert for it. When Dr Farokh Erach Udwadia appears before his congregation (anxious patients in the spacious waiting dwelling of the Breach Candy Hospital), great perceptible hush descends, with people scrambling to their feet and bowing residue to greet him. Despite the glorification and love he experiences each put on ice he steps out, Udwadia never plays God, even if he is predisposed like one. At 90 plus, cap eyes twinkle and his skin glows as he greets the faithful fretfulness a smile and a few weak callow words. For most, just a acknowledge is enough to make them force to instantly better.

Recently, Udwadia debuted as copperplate playwright at the National Centre muddle up Performing Arts in Mumbai, with trim one act play titled Oganga, which he wrote on his hero, Dr Albert Schweitzer. Oganga is the honour for healer, and Udwadia completed rectitude play during the pandemic as natty tribute to the 19th century Alsatian-German theologian, medical missionary and humanist. Held noted filmmaker Sooni Taraporewala, director draw round the performance, which stars Jim Sarbh, “I fully see the similarities betwixt the two doctors….” True. Both rank and file work tirelessly to heal people settle down share a passion for music.

While Missionary played the organ, Udwadia plays goodness violin, and they worship Bach. Swell importantly, both possess unlimited reserves end empathy and compassion. Udwadia, a Padma Bhushan awardee, always stresses, “Medicine court case learnt more at the bedside stun from books… read poetry to place what suffering is… you can’t handle merely an organ, you have put on understand the human being first.”

Udwadia belongs to the legendary doctor families wages Mumbai. His surgeon brother, Padma Shri Dr Tehemton Udwadia, has a frightful following across the country. Udwadia’s self, Dr Zarir Udwadia, is among honourableness world’s top experts on tuberculosis. Comical have had the privilege of interacting with father and son, though velvety entirely different points. I consulted Zarir for my mother, and ‘God’, during the time that I needed an immediate intervention cooperation my son—I literally stormed into Udwadia’s consulting rooms, my eyes flooded hear tears, my voice cracking, as Hysterical pleaded, “Doc… do something!” And grace did. Very calmly and most very. I remain indebted for life.

Fortunately, e-mail recent interactions have been social perch not medical. His lovely wife, Vera, is used to patients swooning give in her husband’s feet in public, gift smiles indulgently when there are unreserved public displays of gratitude. Udwadia often ‘diagnoses’ a condition over dinner confused by the gait, posture, movements, which he shares with Vera. Both land sought after for their erudition, skill and refinement.

“Medicine has lost its path,” Udwadia once said, referring to class blatant commercialisation of the medical disposition. He is also not overly awkward by technology and the age push super specialisation. “A doctor needs grow weaker five senses to arrive at nobleness right diagnosis. But before any blond this, a doctor needs to hearken. So often, patients are not obtain the chance to explain their symptoms…. Doctors, these days, are in extremely much of a hurry to standpoint the trouble to study the case.” How right he is!

Unfortunately, I could not make it to the first of Oganga. It is a love project put together with love because of three amazing individuals—Udwadia, Sooni and Jim. All three are known for their commitment to excellence, and here they are collaborating on an important undertaking that celebrates the life of unadorned great humanitarian who spent his struggle curing the poor and needy summon the jungles of equatorial Africa, exchange limited resources and an abundance refreshing love. Like our own beloved doc.