87 and still going strong.
I saw ๐๐ฎ๐ฏ๐๐น๐ฎ๐น๐ท๐ถ yesterday in the hospitalโhe had come for his routine check-up. After the consultation, we sat down for a long chat.
The moment MGIMS is mentioned, his eyes light up. Tea. ๐๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ข. His hot, cardamom-flavoured tea and crisp, spicy aloo bondas were more than just snacks.
And the quiet generosity. Lending money to students and never asking for it back. He just forgot.
To over a thousand MGIMS students from the โ70s and โ80s, Babulalji was more than a tea vendor. He was their doting mother, elder brother, chachaโall in one.
But for Babulalji, Sevagram would not have been what it is today. And but for him, many students simply wouldnโt have survived the early MGIMS years.
Even today, at 87, he carries that same warmth.
