Birajdar Hospital Cancer Research Centre

Finding us is pretty easy if you know the Shiva Farm Bus Stop. We are right there on the Pune Solapur Road in Hadapsar. It’s a busy stretch of road with lots of trucks and cars going past all day long. The Birajdar Hospital Cancer Research Centre is where we spend our time. It’s a big name for a place where we just do our jobs every day. The researchers are usually busy with their papers and the lab stuff. We see the buses stop outside and people getting off to go to work or the farm. The dust from the road sometimes gets inside, so we are always dusting the desks. Hadapsar has changed a lot over the years, getting more crowded. We have been here through much of that change. Inside, it’s mostly quiet compared to the noise from the Pune Solapur highway. We drink a lot of tea and look at the charts. The center isn't like those shiny hospitals you see in magazines. It’s more practical. We have our equipment and our files, and we just try to figure things out. People come here because they have to, and we try to be there when they arrive. It’s just a regular building near a farm bus stop, but a lot of thinking happens inside these walls. Every morning the sun hits the front windows and we start again.