Nobody Names Their Child Sanjay Anymore
SP Kalantri, a physician at MGIMS, Sevagram, founded in 1969, studies 3,978 alumni names over 55 years and discovers how first names changed over the last two decades.
𝗩𝗶𝗷𝗮𝘆’𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆: 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗦𝗶𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺
Today’s election jolt from Tamil Nadu: Vijay, cinema idol, surges into politics with a landslide win. His name rings out—TV, headlines, YouTube, WhatsApp. “Vijay” wakes old echoes for us. Amitabh…
Read →The Quiet Wit of Ward 13
Yesterday the news reached me: Dr. Vinod Adbe is no more. A remembrance of the man who taught me medicine in Ward 13 at GMC Nagpur — and whose dry wit arrived a full three seconds after the punchline.
Jiji
She was eleven years older, steady, always there. A portrait of my sister Pushpa — the homes she built, the letters she wrote, and the quiet way she held all of us together.
Echoes of Abadan: When Iran Was a Haven for Sevagram’s Healers
The images flashing across our screens over the last three days are grim. The skies over the Middle East are streaked with the exhaust of ballistic missiles. The geopolitical chess match between the USA, Israel, and Iran has escalated into intense bombardment, leaving cities damaged, civilians terrified, and world peace hanging by a dangerously frayed … Read more
The Man in the Khadi Shirt — A Farewell to Dr. Ulhas Jajoo
I have known Ulhas Jajoo for nearly five decades, and in all that time I have never seen him wear a shoe. This creates a problem at retirement. The usual cliché — he hung up his boots — simply does not apply. For days I searched for the right phrase and found nothing that fit. … Read more