The Godboles live in Barsur village, nearly 35km from Dantewada city, in a simple two-room house with brick walls and sloping tin roofs, surrounded by lush forest.
Over a video call, Dr Godbole points to an ambulance parked some distance from his house. “The locals here barely have money to afford medicines, let alone transport," he says. “So we took it upon ourselves."What made him want to live and work there? “I started thinking about it when I was around 18-19, after I read a book about Albert Schweitzer," he says.
Schweitzer, born in 1875, was a pianist and a missionary from the erstwhile German empire. At age 30, he took up medicine and set up a hospital in central Africa for vulnerable communities.