Reflections on Medicine and Life by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Armed with a minister’s letter and a poet’s sensibility, Dr. Rohit Agrawal arrived at Sevagram as an impatient teenager only to find a lifelong anchor in its red dust—transforming from a cricket-playing medical student into a national leader in paediatrics who never lost his father’s gift for performance.
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.
Driven by the unresolved questions of his father’s illness, Dr. Vinay Barhale traveled from the “Gurukul” of Sevagram to the rigorous wards of KEM Mumbai, eventually defying the skepticism of his peers to become a pioneering psychiatrist who brought empathy and modern care to Aurangabad.
The son of a dedicated Gandhian who introduced the Ambar charkha to India, Dr. Raju Deodhar’s journey to medicine was nearly derailed by family tragedy and a detour into pharmacy—until the gates of MGIMS opened, calling him back to the village paths he had first walked as a six-year-old boy.
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.