Hariharan Srinivasan

Hariharan Srinivasan was an Indian orthopedic surgeon who devoted most of his working life to correcting the deformed hands and feet of people affected by leprosy. Born on 7 September 1929, he took his medical degree at Madras Medical College in 1952 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1957 and of England in 1958. After working in British hospitals he returned to India in 1959 and began his leprosy work at Mangalore, then served at the Central Leprosy Teaching and Research Institute at Chengalpattu from 1962. He sat on the World Health Organization expert panel for leprosy, edited the Indian Journal of Leprosy, received the Padma Shri in 1984, and also wrote Tamil short stories under the pen name Charvakan. He died on 21 December 2015.