Dr. Sanjoy Satpathy

Dr. Sanjoy Satpathy is a good friend of ours- not because we share many hobbies or likes and dislikes- but because he was a physician we depended on many occasions(pure personal benefit), because he is a friend of many of mine and Niyati's friends and also because he is the son of a great teacher and writer Sri Basant Kumar Satpathy who taught Niyati and whose short stories I used to enjoy during my youth. Later Dr. Sanjoy developed good inclination to write short stories in Oriya and has found a place among modern day Oriya writers. This man has versatile talents. He used to be a good cricketer. He has proved to be a good physician with an uncanny mind to solve diagnostic dilemmas with the minimum of investigations. He has started singing in his late sixties and cracked a few records. If you meet him, he is full of humor and often offers opinions which are socially relevant but quite opposite the popular stream. Sometimes hard hitting with his satires, this man also creates enemies easily, though quite often without intention. He serves Ispat Genral Hospital, Rourkela for over 30 years and always longed to stay in this town. But towards the end of his carrier decided to shift Bhubaneswar with his wife whom we fondly called Kalyani Bhauja. He now works for Ayush Hospital but remains the same agile and witty Sanjoy that we used to meet years back in Rourkela. At 63 also he looks youthful and boisterous and lives the way he used to some 10-15 years back. May God keep him and Kalyani Bhauja healthy and hearty as before.