TSI was started 15 years back with Dr. D. D. Tanna as President and Dr. Sudhir Babhulkar as Secretary and ably supported by Dr. G. S. Kulkarni and Dr. S. C. Goel. In those days, arthroplasty, arthroscopy and spine were considered as major specialities of Orthopaedics, while trauma was considered as one of basic units of orthopaedics. Following the trend, there were speciality conferences only in arthroscopy, arthroplasty, spine and also in paediatric orthopaedics but no dedicated conference for trauma existed.