The author
Dr. Prahlada N.B.
A surgeon, teacher, innovator and humanitarian from Chitradurga, Karnataka — and the author of the Ever Green Revolution blueprint. He has spent his life solving hard problems in the operating theatre and in the village, bringing the same diagnostic discipline to medicine and to agriculture.
- 48,000+
- free ear surgeries for the poor
- 19+
- countries served on surgical camps
- 17+
- gold medals for original research
- 120+
- ENT surgeons trained
Training & qualifications
- MBBS — JJM Medical College, Davanagere (Mysore University)
- MS, ENT–Head & Neck Surgery — PGIMER, Chandigarh
- Advanced fellowships abroad — endoscopic sinus surgery, ear & skull-base surgery, head & neck cancer and micro-vascular reconstruction, and voice surgery
- MBA, Hospital & Healthcare Management — BITS Pilani
- Executive Programme in Strategic Management — IIM Lucknow; Senior Management in Healthcare — IIM Kozhikode
- Post-graduate Certificate in Technology & Innovation — MIT
A surgeon and innovator
He built one of the finest ENT departments at the 700-bed Al-Shifa super-specialty hospital in northern Kerala, where he wrote a pioneering book, Imaging for Endoscopic Sinus Surgery. In 2000 he won the national Dr. RAF Cooper Award for an original surgical technique — the 'Karnataka Flap for Mastoid Obliteration' — the first and only surgeon in Karnataka to receive it.
Since 2000 he has led the ENT–Head & Neck Surgery department at Basaveshwara Medical College & Hospital, Chitradurga, as Senior Professor — publishing original research, developing new surgical techniques and winning more than seventeen gold medals. As a resource person he has lectured, chaired sessions and operated at over 500 national and international courses, and personally trained more than 120 junior ENT surgeons from India and abroad. Since 2009 he has also been a Senior Visiting Consultant at Brains Super-specialty Hospital, Bangalore — his interests, as he puts it, running 'from dura to pleura.'
Service beyond the clinic
Through Rotary International he has run more than 450 surgical camps across over 19 countries, performing free ear surgery for more than 48,000 people who could not otherwise afford it — work for which Rotary honoured him with its Professional Excellence Award.
Why a surgeon wrote an agriculture blueprint
Dr. Prahlada was born into a farming family in the dry Chitradurga region, and never stopped watching the system that shaped his childhood fail the people still inside it. Bringing a clinician's habit — diagnose the whole system, not just the symptom — he set down in 2015 a comprehensive plan to run Indian agriculture as one connected annual cycle, much of which has since surfaced, piece by piece, in national policy.
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