User talk:Nikhilesh S R

Born in a small village called Nidaghatta, halfway between Bangalore and Mysore. Educated around the state moving around with father working for the state. Graduated in chemistry, botany and zoology from St Joseph ' s college, Bangalore at the age of 17. One of the youngest to graduate from the university that year. After finishing medicine from Bangalore Medical College with a distinction in Ophthalmology, emigrated to the UK. Underwent surgical training in various centres in the UK and obtained FRCS from Glasgow and Edinburgh. Spent a year at the university of Liverpool for a masters degree in orthopaedics. Just as he was finishing orthopaedic training, fate intervened with a cancer of thyroid. Treated with total excision of the thyroid and chemotherapy. Appointed as consultant orthopaedic surgeon in 1995 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead. Soon rose up to the level of clinical director of the trauma and orthopaedic department. He was instrumental in bringing in many innovations to improve patient care in the hospital. Of particular note was instituting Rapid Recovery Programme for patients being admitted for hip and knee replacements. This improved the quality of life for numerous patients. He was one of the first ones in the UK to perform total knee replacement using minimally invasive technique. He was travelling the world teaching and training this technique. He was an instructor for the same at Medical University of Vienna. The unrivalled success lead to jealousy and greed by some of his colleagues. They cooked up spurious allegations and reported him to the regulatory body of the UK - General Medical Council. There followed a prolonged period of what could only be termed as series of bungling bureaucracy by the GMC lasting nearly 5 years. The corruption and incompetence by the GMC was monumental. It was a horrendous period for him and he came through with the help of his friends and a stubborn belief in himself. He published the ordeal in his first book, A Kangaroo Court. It was critically acclaimed and helped many doctors in a similar situation. Social work: he spent time raising money for charity. Climbed Kilimanjaro to raise funds for the Blind. Nearly died in the attempt when he was stuck down with mountain sickness and went blind temporarily. Cerebral oedema forced him to be carried down to the base camp. Ran orthopaedic clinics in India for the poor. Spent a week in 2016 at Derwan at a charity camp where he did 24 hip and knee replacements. He continues to take part in charity work at every opportunity. The success of the book, a Kangaroo court, gave him a taste for writing. That was the start of the Harappa series. He had an inordinate interest in history, particularly ancient history. He had buikt up an encyclopaedia of information about indus valley civilisation over a petiod of 25 years. He decided to put down what he had learnt during that time into books. He wants the man on the street to read history and the only way to make it palatable was to fictionalise history. The first book of the Harappa series, the Lure of Soma was published in 2013 and launched in Delhi. The second book of the series, the Fall of Shuruppak was released in 2014. This dealt with trading links between the Harappan and Mesopotamian civilisations. The third book, Dashrajna : The battle of ten kings was released in 2015. It deals with the centre piece of Rigveda, ancient scriptures from India. It's considered the oldest scripture and probably the largest in the world. There are three more books on the pipeline, expected to be finished over the next three years. While he was busy writing the Harappa series of books, fate intervened again in the form of yet another cancer. He was diagnosed as suffering from a Neuroendocrine tumour of the intestine. It is being treated by chemotherapy as it was not operable. He has the chemotherapy in the form of an injection every four weeks and the tumour is being monitored with regular scans. Ambition: To get the Harappa series of six books completed by 2018 and hopefully bring it out on the big screen, He is in discussion with production houses both in Bollywood and the UK at present. He wants to spread the story of Harappan civilization to the world and make it as popular and as well known as the Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations.