Sevagram Remembered
An oral history of the founding doctors of MGIMS
MGIMS – The Founding Decade – 1969–1980
They arrived when there were no paved roads, no certainty, and barely a building. They built the institution by living in it. These are their stories.
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150
Portraits published
12
Founding batches
1969
First batch, MGIMS
22
Countries represented
Three portraits from the archive
MP
Batch of 1969 · Roll No. 52
Dr. Madhavan Govinda Pillai
The letter that said: Take charge of this boy
MK
Batch of 1973 · Roll No. 23
Dr. Mohammad Jusab Khan
The boy who read Sheila Sherlock
AV
Batch of 1980 · Roll No. 03
Dr. Aruna Vishwanath Vanikar
A pathologist who grew new cells
One hundred and fifty portraits across twelve batches — 1969 to 1980. The archive grows each month.
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Foreword by Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Remembering the Ones Who Came First
In January 2023, after four decades at MGIMS, I returned to being a teacher and a physician. Each month brought another condolence message, another name quietly slipping out of the hospital directory and into the past. I realised that if someone did not write these stories down now, they would vanish as if they had never happened. So I began to ask.
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