MGIMS – The Founding Decade – 1969–1980
Portraits by Batch
150 doctors across 12 founding batches. Each arrived at a village institution when it was barely built. Each left a mark that endures.
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1969
26 portraits
SS
Dr. Subhash Shrivastava
Cricket, love and Sevagram
DC
Dr. Dilip Chotai
The Boy Who Came Alone
SB
Dr. Shyam Babhulkar
Born Where He Belonged
RA
Dr. Rohit Agrawal
A Poet’s Son in Gandhi’s Village
VB
Dr. Vinay Barhale
The Road Less Travelled
RD
Dr. Rajendra Deodhar
The Place That Was Already Home
SD
Dr. Shivaji Deshmukh
Everybody called him Bhau
RG
Dr. Ratnamala Golhar
What a Single Sentence Can Do
VK
Dr. Vilas Kanikdaley
The General’s Son
BM
Dr. Balkrishna Maheshwari
The Borrowed Shirt
GM
Dr. Girish Mulkar
Two Names, One Purpose
MR
Dr. Mangalsingh Rajput
The Accidental Physician
ST
Dr. Saroj Taksande
The Woman Who Stayed at Her Post
YT
Dr. Yadunath Telkikar
The Name Added at the Last Moment
JM
Dr. Jolly Mathew
The Boy Who Came Alone
VB
Dr. Varun Bhargava
The man whose middle name was endurance
GG
Dr. Gopal Gadhesaria
The student who won over the toughest physician
DG
Dr. Dev Krishna Gupta
The boy who had never been beyond Bathinda
HS
Dr. Hardial Singh
The man who danced his way in
BD
Dr. Bhakti Dastane
The daughter of the man who built the library
SD
Dr. Shalini Kohade Deshmukh
The wrong number
MP
Dr. Madhavan Govinda Pillai
The Letter That Said: Take Charge of This Boy
RP
Dr. Rajendra Prasad
Truth, not khadi, was his admission letter
TP
Dr. TR Pushpam
Kerala, Sevagram and Zambia
AK
Dr. Anil Kumar Kaushik
Gandhian roots, a Jhansi career
MC
Dr. Manohar Chaudhary
Two in One
1970
8 portraits
BP
Dr. Bajrangprasad Pandey
The wheat that changed the life
RC
Dr. Rajeev Chaudhari
The Boy from the Next Village
MG
Dr. Mankesh Lal Gambhir
The Engineer Who Became a Doctor
PG
Dr. Pramod Gupta
The Boy from Chirgaon Who Told Two Lies
SG
Dr. Santosh Kumar Gupta
The Batsman Who Opened a Door
VG
Dr. Vijay Gedam
The Diagnosis That Astonished Mumbai
SS
Dr. Sheelmohan Sachdev
Bhajans at Dawn, Palliative Care at Dusk
AT
Dr. Akil Taherbhai
The Cricketer Who Came Without Ideals
1971
15 portraits
SB
Dr. Surinder Bajwa-Gode
Medicine, Marriage, and the Sevagram Spirit
JB
Dr. Jyotsana Bhambri-Walia
The Lal Stetho and Delhi Dreams
DG
Dr. Dilip Gode
The Surgeon Who Built the Court
SK
Dr. Sanjeevanee Gole Kelkar
The Scalpel and the Ashram Spirit
NI
Dr. Narayan Ingole
The Methodical Architect of Pathology
MS
Dr. Madhu Sachdev Sethi
Hindi Stories and Healing Hands
KT
Dr. Karuna Thapar
The Miracle of the Fiftieth Seat
DJ
Dr. Dilip Jobanputra
The Wit and Wisdom of Roll No. 27
RK
Dr. Ravindra Kolte
The Light of Perpetual Studies
MK
Dr. Madhugandha Patwardhan Karandikar
Neem Leaves and the Bhagavad Gita
AP
Dr. Alhad Pimputkar
The Pearl of the Flowing River
DR
Dr. Dilip Raichura
The Gold Medalist from the Gir Forest
MS
Dr. Manju Sachan
The Quilt of Sevagram Memories
DN
Dr. Debi Sen Naskar
Roots in the Red Soil of Sevagram
PA
Dr. Parvin Khalda Ansari
From Sevagram Roots to Canadian Wings
1972
8 portraits
SB
Dr. Sharad Badole
From Clinical Sleep to Spiritual Awakening
VR
Dr. Vidyadhar Ranade
A Legacy of Service
TB
Dr. Tarvinder Bir Singh Buxi
A Journey Guided by Faith
AK
Dr. Ashish Kulkarni
He Practised What He Preached
SG
Dr. Shirish Gode
Born in Sevagram’s Shadow
PT
Dr. Punam Kohli Tyagi
Sevagram Changed Her Life
JS
Dr. Jagdish Prasad Sharma
The Sugarcane Physician of Seohara
MO
Dr. Mukunda Oke
Jhoom Barabar Jhoom Sharabi
1973
5 portraits
1974
12 portraits
AS
Dr. Abhoy Kumar Sinha
The Paddy-Field Surgeon
AG
Dr. Arvind Garg
The Resilience of the Dirty Dozen
BG
Dr. Brijbhushan Gupta
The Sincerity of the Heart
HO
Dr. Hari Oam
Medicine, Music, and Miniature Giants
SC
Dr. Sanjiv Prakash Chugh
The Accidental Symbol of Merit
KS
Dr. Kishore Shah
The Gold Medalist of the Marathi Stage
SD
Dr. Sunil Dargar
The Maiden Voyage to Simplicity
SG
Dr. Suneela Garg
The Delhi Girl in the Quiet Fields
MK
Dr. Mukund Karambelkar
The Calligraphic Scholar
LK
Dr. Lalit Kose
The Melodic Heart of Sargam
PG
Dr. Pradeep Kumar Gupta
The Resilience of Protoplasm
AJ
Dr. Ashok Birbal Jain
The Physician of the Akbar-Birbal Joke
1975
10 portraits
KG
Dr. Kapil Gupta
From the Vijay Scooter to the Multispecialty Summit
BA
Dr. Bipin Amin
The Persistence of a Third-Time Candidate
NA
Dr. Nafisa Kapadia Aptekar
The Human Contrast: From Byculla to Canada
DS
Dr. D.P. Singh
The Legal Architect of Ophthalmic Opportunity
MK
Dr. Madhu Kant
The Surgeon of Ten Thousand Steps
RG
Dr. Ramchandra Goel
The Barefoot Scholar of Nagla Pathak
PH
Dr. Pardeep Handa
The Physician of the Silent Station
VS
Dr. Vijay Sharma
The Surgeon Who Mended His Own Destiny
AK
Dr. Anita Mehta Kant
The Academic Heart of the 1975 Batch
KA
Dr. Krishan Kumar Aggarwal
The Prodigy of Tradition and Technology
1976
11 portraits
AG
Dr. Anil Gomber
The Confidence to Serve
AM
Dr. Aruna Mutha
The first bride of the 1976 batch
AM
Dr. Ashok Mehendale
The Academic All-Rounder of Sevagram
DM
Dr. Desh Diwakar Mittal
The Sun for the Country
MP
Dr. Mridul Panditrao
The Last to Enter
RT
Dr. Rajiv Tandon
The Global Voice of the 1976 Batch
SP
Dr. Santosh Prabhu
The Big Fish of Kolhapur
SR
Dr. Shyamsunder Rathi
The Brilliance of a Fading Star
ST
Dr. Sunil Takiar
The Brigadier Gynaecologist of MGIMS
TO
Dr. Tarvinder Singh Oberoy
The Pilot of the 1976 Waitlist
VG
Dr. Vijay Gupta
The Truth-Seeker of the 76 Batch
1977
15 portraits
SM
Dr. Samir Mewar
He read the Gandhian books. Most others did not.
AB
Dr. Anjali Ingley Bhure
Whatever I am today is because of those ten golden years
AA
Dr. Anil Akulwar
The Boy Who Was Honest About Mathematics
DN
Dr. Danny Naik
The boy who almost did not apply
NM
Dr. Nagesh Mandapaka
A Crumpled Envelope Thrown into a Moving Train
PK
Dr. Pardeep Kumar Kapoor
A Goldsmith’s Son Finds His Name in Wardha
RS
Dr. Rakesh Sood
The Man Who Won His Place Talking Cricket
RG
Dr. Ravi Gupta
The One-Down Batsman
RB
Dr. Rajendra Borkar
The Man Who Missed the First Bus and Caught the Better One
KM
Dr. K.P. Madhusoodanan
The Boy from Koodal
ST
Dr. Satish Tiwari
The Boy Who Stayed
SJ
Dr. Sandeep Jeste
Gandhi on the Grand Trunk Express
SC
Dr. Swaraj Naik (nee Chowdhry)
The Word That Changed Everything
VB
Dr. Varinder Singh Bedi
The Corridors of PGI and Gandhiji’s Ashram
SP
Dr. Suchitra Pandit
Mumbai girl arrives in Sevagram
1978
13 portraits
BM
Dr. Bharti Sonwane Magre
Merit Wore No Recommendation
CS
Dr. Chandrashekhar Singh
The Boy Who Knew the Word for Fodder
GD
Dr. Gautam Daftary
The Quiet Revolution in a White Coat
HK
Dr. Harminder Kaur
Six Sizzlers and One Cobra
JB
Dr. Jyotsna Bajpai (Potdar)
The Girl No One Expected to Survive
KB
Dr. Kiran Shankar Banerjee
The Boy Who Felt at Home in the Dust
NG
Dr. Nitin Gangane
The Boy They Could Not Silence
PS
Dr. Pratibha Mishrikotkar Sinha
She Said No, and Then She Said Yes
RK
Dr. Rafat Khan
The Voice That Found Its Life
RS
Dr. Raju Shah
One Mark and a Lifetime’s Work
RD
Dr. Rupak Datta
Light Luggage, Long Journey
SM
Dr. Sanjay Marwah
In His Father’s Footsteps, Gladly
SM
Dr. Sunil Mapari
The Farmer’s Son and the Surgeon’s Hands
1979
14 portraits
AG
Dr. Arvind Ghongane
The Luna-Wala Doctor
AK
Dr. Ashok Kamble
The Radiologist Who Walked into Silence
BS
Dr. Bharat Sharma
The army doctor
BB
Dr. Bindu Bansal Ballani
The Girl on the Bombay Local
CG
Dr. Chandrashekhar Gattani
In the footsteps of four sisters
HS
Dr. Haresh Sidhwa
The Boy from Jamshedpur’s Steel City
GM
Dr. Girish Muzumdar
The boy wrote backwards
JK
Dr. Jasbinder Kaur
The girl who sang for the hall
NV
Dr. Narayan Vinchurkar
There is light at the end of tunnel
NM
Dr. Narayan Marathe
Twice Rejected, Thrice Blessed
CB
Dr. Chandrashekhar Badole
The Engineer Who Stayed
SM
Dr. Shivraj Mathpati
The spinal he gave to his teacher’s wife
VB
Dr. Vinod Bele
Fifty Thousand Tubectomies
AB
Dr. Anil Ballani
The reluctant student who refused to leave
1980
13 portraits
AV
Dr. Aruna Vishwanath Vanikar
A Pathologist Who Grew New Cells
JV
Dr. Jayant Dattatraya Vagha
The Boy Who Arrived on a Broken Leg
MK
Dr. Manish Narayan Kothari
He Jumped a Moving Train, Then Chose Stocks
MM
Dr. M.C. Krishna Mohan
The Boy Who Read Backwards, Then Read the World
NC
Dr. Nalin Chaudhary
The Boy from Bihar Who Ranked First in Gandhi
PS
Dr. Parag Anop Shah
The Surgeon Who Learned to Climb
PD
Dr. Paresh Chandrakant Desai
The Boy Who Shaved His Head and Stayed
PN
Dr. Prakash Nagpure
The Surgeon Who Talks to the Soil
RM
Dr. Ravindra Balwant Mulay
The Politician Who Chose the Microscope
SM
Dr. Sujata Mehta-Prabhu
She Built a Hospital When There Was Nothing
VA
Dr. Vinaya Soman Agnihotri
The Cycle That Went Everywhere
ST
Dr. Sanjiv Thosar
The Marathi Boy Who Found His Voice
NT
Dr. Neena Naik Thosar
From Village Child to Mountain Peaks