This book is an Autobiography of Mrs Vijayalakshmi Banerjee, a National Florence Nightingale Awardee and an excellent nurse, administrator and educator with distinguished service to patients for the last over 46 years. She has been instrumental in helping set up two of India's premier hospitals, viz. Escort Heart Institute and Research Centre in 1988 and Medanta-The Medicity in 2009. Mrs Banerjee also has had over a decade of rich experience in the Indian army and has served in India and in Afghanistan. She is decorated with long service medal and the Sangram medal for her contribution in the 1971 India- Pakistan war.

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CONTENTS

1. Early Years—15

2. Army Life—23

3. Civil Experience—49

4. International Training Center—89

5. Lifetime Achievement Award—92

6. Photo Gallery—96

Mrs. V. Banerjee is a Kanarese, born in Trichi on 12 July 1948, in a middle class Hindu family, to Shri S. Rangaswamy, a distinguished police officer and Smt. Rajammal. Brought up in Tamil Nadu, she studied in Coimbatore, Trichi and Salem in Tamil Nadu and Pune in Maharashtra and worked in Lucknow, Delhi, and Gurugram in India, and Kabul in Afghanistan. She is married to Mr. Tapan Banerjee, a Bengali, and they are settled in Delhi. That’s truly an Indian with diversity! She has two daughters and a lovely grandson.