Dr. Dwarkanath Kotnis was born on the 10th of October 1910 at Sholapur in Maharashtra in a lower middle class family. He entered the medical field and joined the G.S.Medical College, Bombay. Even in his student days he was inspired by the ideas of freedom and liberty and joined the movement against British Rule. Because of this he had to leave the college but with single minded doggedness he graduated from the Grant Medical Colage, Bombay in 1936.

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