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Have Fire From Within; Nothing Is Impossible: Dr Chandragouda Dodagoudar

Bengaluru: Dr Chandragouda Dodagoudar's life is an amazing journey of unimaginable accomplishments all along the way entangled with odds and an uphill task. Presently Dr Chandragouda Dodagoudar is the Director-Medical Oncology and Unit Head at the BLK-MAX super-speciality hospital on Pusa Road in New Delhi. Another interesting aspect is that he is one of the sought-after Oncologists in the country. Poverty-stricken family with meagre means: In a free-wheeling interaction Dr Chandragouda Dodagoudar recalled the hard old days and the struggle throughout his stint as a student- "The life as a kid was very tough. I was the eldest one at home with two younger brothers and a younger sister. It was a poverty-stricken peasant family with meagre means to run the show. Not that we had no lands in the native village near Hubballi Taluka in Karnataka state, but whatever we owned was not in our possession as it was pledged to a rich person in return for availing loans ... ...A hazardous