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MGIMS Sevagram

Five Doctors, Five Roads Less traveled

In Sevagram, some medical students chose roads no one expected. They arrived at MGIMS in 1969 and the early 1970s with one aim. To become doctors. Yet life, with its quiet nudges and sudden jolts, steered them elsewhere. What unfolded were stories richer than fiction, each marked by the sacred soil of Sevagram. _________________________________________ Take …

MGIMS Sevagram

Down Memory Lane

Dr. Alhad Pimputkar (MGIMS Batch of 1971), the lead actor of the unforgettable Marathi drama ๐™†๐™–๐™ ๐™– ๐™†๐™ž๐™จ๐™๐™ฎ๐™–๐™˜๐™๐™–, takes us back to February 1974โ€”when this play brought the Sevagram campus alive and left the open-air auditorium ringing with laughter. Two of the playโ€™s brilliant actors, Dr. Sudhir Deshmukh (1970 batch) and Dr. Narayan Daware (1971 batch), …

Obituary

Dr. Anita Borges passed away

Dr. Anita Borges passed away yesterday. A heart attack took her from us. What a remarkable pathologist she was. I never met her, but in 2017 I watched her hour-long YouTube talk, โ€œ๐—ฆ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด๐˜† ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ž๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜†๐˜‚๐—ด๐—ฎโ€. Professors are often stubborn, their egos rarely allowing them to acknowledge mistakes in public. She was the exception. She …

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๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ง๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—”๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ฅ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—บ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด

Nostalgia. I use this word often. Perhaps it comes with age, a habit of looking back, of holding on to the past. But sometimes I wonder. Am I using it right? The ending -algia makes me pause. In medicine, algos means pain. Every day, I prescribe analgesics to my patients, medicines that take the algia …

Cricket

This is Not Cricket

A few days ago, Saurabh Ganguly switched off the Indiaโ€“Pakistan match after the 15th over and watched the Manchester Derby instead. Iโ€™m not surprised. As a medical student in the 70s and 80s, I grew up watching Pakistan at its peakโ€”Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Zaheer Abbas, Sarfraz Nawaz, Abdul Qadir, Mudassar Nazar, Wasim Akram, Waqar …

MGIMS Sevagram

Five Doctors, Five Roads Les Traveled

In Sevagram, some medical students chose roads no one expected. They arrived at MGIMS in 1969 and the early 1970s with one aim. To become doctors. Yet life, with its quiet nudges and sudden jolts, steered them elsewhere. What unfolded were stories richer than fiction, each marked by the sacred soil of Sevagram. ______________________________________________________ Take …

MGIMS Sevagram

An Evening in Sevagram, 1974

Yesterday evening, in the quiet of the MGIMS library, I found Sushrutaโ€”the student magazine from 1974. Its cover was worn. The pages were yellow, some torn at the edges, faded with age. They carried the smell of time. As I turned them, I reached the Marathi section edited by Dr. Narayan Daware (class of 1971), …