Short version — I'm an ENT doctor in Hardoi, I specialise in vertigo, and I believe most of the dizziness walking into Indian clinics is treatable if somebody takes the trouble to figure out which kind it is.
Training, and why I came back to Hardoi
I did my MBBS from GSVM Medical College, Kanpur. That's where medicine actually began to make sense to me — it's a massive teaching hospital, so you see everything, and you see it early. For DNB ENT I went to Tata Main Hospital in Jamshedpur — three years of operating theatres, outpatient volume, and the kind of no-fuss, results-over-process culture that I still think is underrated in Indian postgraduate training.
After DNB I could have stayed in Bangalore or Kolkata — I did clinical work in both cities while training in neurotology — but I came back to Hardoi. Partly family. Mostly because the vestibular gap here is enormous. There was no vestibular lab between Lucknow and Bareilly. Patients were travelling to Delhi or Bangalore for a workup that should have been available in their own district.
The CAMVD certification from Yenepoya University came later, as I deepened my work in neurotology. It's a structured qualification in vestibular medicine that forced me to formalise a lot of what I was already doing by instinct.
What I actually do at the clinic
At Prime ENT Center I run three things. First, general ENT — tympanoplasty, septoplasty, adenoidectomy, DCR, endoscopic sinus surgery, audiometry and fitting of hearing aids. This is the bread-and-butter of any ENT practice.
Second — and this is the bigger thing — a dedicated vestibular lab. VNG, fHIT, posturography. The tests are expensive to acquire and most private ENTs don't bother because the referrals are unpredictable. I do, because every week I find a BPPV or a vestibular migraine that three previous doctors have missed, and watching a patient walk out relieved after eleven months of being told "it's anxiety" is the single most satisfying thing in this job.
Third, I write. Long-form articles in English, Hindi, and a growing number of Indian languages — for the Journal on this site. I also peer-review for the Indian Journal of Otolaryngology (Springer Nature), and I've published original case series, most notably on anterior canal BPPV.
Research philosophy, for anyone who's curious
I'm a clinician-researcher, not a career academic. The research I do comes out of the clinic and goes back into the clinic. If we see 44 cases of anterior canal BPPV in a single clinician's practice — which might be the largest such single-investigator Indian series — that's worth writing up, because the literature is thin. If Epley hold-time numbers in the textbook don't match the physics, that's worth writing up. If a repositioning manoeuvre needs a new variant, that's worth testing.
I don't chase topics that are easy to publish. I chase problems that bother me in the clinic. It's a slower way to build a bibliography. It's a better way to build medicine.