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Pioneer Showcase. "A Tribute to Gopal Baratham" comprised a dramatised reading of excerpts from Baratham's short stories by the Big Bad Wolf theatre company, a forum discussing Baratham's literary legacy featuring poet Kirpal Singh, editor Mindy Pang and writer Crispin Rodrigues, and a short
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Born to a physician (Baratham's father was Dr B.R. Sreenivasan, Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Singapore, 1962-63) and a nurse, Baratham decided to follow his parents and entered the medical profession. However, his youth was marked by the experience of the
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Thomson Road General Hospital in Singapore. He headed the Neurosurgery Department at the
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activists whom the
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between 1984 and 1987, and went into private practice after relinquishing his post as department head. He retired full-time from medical practice in 1999.
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Forgetting: The Collected Stories of Gopal Baratham
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Written Country: The History of Singapore through Literature
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