Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis: India may have forgotten this doctor from Maharashtra, but China still honours his legacy with memorials and institutions: Who was Dr Dwarkanath Kotnis?
Visitors paying tribute to Kotnis’s statue in Shijiazhuang | In circle: Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis in Army uniform (Photo courtesy: China Daily and Xinhua) At a time when India and China were themselves struggling under the shadow of war and colonial rule, a young Indian doctor travelled thousands of kilometres to help wounded Chinese soldiers. He…