Word: chandra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inventors of the Jaipur foot seem a mismatched pair. Dr. Pramod Karan Sethi, 70, an orthopedic surgeon, is a fellow of Britain's Royal College of Surgeons, while his collaborator, an artisan named Ram Chandra, reached only the fourth grade in Jaipur. Their paths first crossed more than 30 years ago at the Sawai Man Singh Hospital in Jaipur. There, Sethi was helping his orthopedic patients wobble down the corridor on their crutches, and Chandra was teaching lepers to make handicrafts...
...Chandra is a kind of Pygmalion: he can turn whatever piece of stone or gold he touches into a lifelike creation. Born into a family that had been master artisans for four generations, he quickly established himself as one of Jaipur's finest sculptors, and his talents were sought by temple priests and princes. "If all I saw was your nose, it would be enough for me to sculpt a likeness of your entire body," says Chandra, 75, whose folded hands are like a box of old wooden tools. "It's all to do with proportions. That...
...Gupta didn't just preach openness; she exuded it. When Nikhil Chandra '99 suffered a flood in his room, which destroyed all of his textbooks and notes just before exam period last year, Gupta came to the rescue. She organized a "Help Nick" campaign among SAA members to get him copies of notes and textbooks so that he could study...
...stopped me in the Science Center and offered to help me out," Chandra says. "I'd never really had a conversation with her before, but she just flagged me down in the Science Center...
...members also chose Brian S. Im '98 and Nikhil Chandra '99 as co-vice presidents and Paula V. Fernandez '99, who ran unopposed, as secre- tary-historian...