Closed Doors, Open Windows: The Autobiography of Prof. P. N. Tandon

Abstract

Even if you decide not to pursue Neurosurgery, I would like you to meet them-come to know them – because you are the only other person I am equally fond of.” [...]Dr. Volodarsky introduced him to his second mentor, the eminent neurosurgeon, Dr. Kristiansen. [...]at superannuation, he could have slowed down and looked back on an extremely illustrious and satisfying career. A biography, “the history of life of a person in focus,” is a subjective interpretation of the changes taking place in a particular place in the life of the individual and is entirely influenced by the eyes of the beholder. [...]by its very nature, it can never be “perfect” and “absolutely accurate,” no matter how much time and energy any author devotes to it. Considering Prof. Tandon's immense contribution to the field of “sciences in India,” his biography would inevitably have been written at some point in time. Since the current book is an autobiography, documented over a lifetime and edited in its entirety by the great man himself (along with his two close associates), it has become the focal point and the foundation on which others later will base their work.