Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Born within the very walls of the hospital where he would later train, Dr. Shyam Babhulkar’s journey was one of quiet destiny—from a champion rifle shooter at a Gandhian institute to a surgeon shaped by the dust of rural medical camps and the spotlight of the college stage.
The Clipping The envelope was thin and had travelled from Pune. Inside was a folded piece of newsprint and a short note in Gujarati, in handwriting Gopal recognised immediately: it was from Meghnibhai, a friend from his school days in Jamnagar who was now studying at the Agriculture College in Pune and whom he had … Read more
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Arriving at MGIMS in 1969 with an unimpressive academic record but a profound sense of honesty, Dr. Shivaji Deshmukh—known to everyone as “Bhau”—found a medical education defined not by rigid hierarchies, but by shared meals, quiet campus corners, and the enduring human warmth of Sevagram.
Late in his career, Varun Bhargava built something that had nothing directly to do with medicine and everything to do with what Sevagram had given him.
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.