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A Voice that built MGIMS

August 8, 1968. A date like many others in the national calendarโ€”almost forgotten. But in a modest meeting room in Delhi, something quietly historic stirred. Three minds met. The agenda: to build a medical college in Sevagram Morarji Desai, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, was from Delhiโ€”famoulsy frugal. Beside him sat Vasantrao Naik, Chief …

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The Dark Room

This evening I was walking past the old Kasturba Hospital buildingโ€”the one that now houses the Department of Community Medicine. I had walked past it hundreds of times, but today, something made me stop. There it was: a small, weather-beaten board that read โ€œ๐——๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ธ ๐—ฅ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—บ.โ€ It hung askew on the aging wall, its rusted edges …

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Anaemia Story 1942

This afternoon, while leafing through the brittle pages of a dusty medical journal, I paused. There it wasโ€”a paper from ๐˜›๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ ๐˜๐˜ฏ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜”๐˜ฆ๐˜ฅ๐˜ช๐˜ค๐˜ข๐˜ญ ๐˜Ž๐˜ข๐˜ป๐˜ฆ๐˜ต๐˜ต๐˜ฆ, dated August 1942. The author: Dr. Sushila Nayar. I blinked. Could it be ๐˜ฐ๐˜ถ๐˜ณ Sushila Nayar? The physician who walked beside Gandhiji and founded ๐˜ฉ๐˜ฆ๐˜ณ MGIMS? The young doctor who became …

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April 22. One Year.

22nd April. One Year. Exactly a year ago, in the quiet hours of the morning, Dhirubhai left us. He was 86. It still feels unreal. Time slows when I think of him. When Dr. Sushila Nayar invited him in 1982 to take charge of MGIMS, he hesitated. โ€œI couldnโ€™t even pronounce the names of half …

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Dr. K.N. Ingley

(December 9, 1931 โ€“ April 19, 2025)Dr. Keshao Narayan Ingleyโ€”known to all as Dr. K.N. Ingleyโ€”was born on December 9, 1931, in the dusty heartland of Buldhana. As the eldest of five siblings, he learned early what it meant to lead, to share, and to wait his turn. The home was always fullโ€”voices echoing through …

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The Mother and the Daughter

Once, in the bustle of Ashok Nagar, Wardha, near the now-quiet ruins of the old Model High School, lived a woman named Pramila. Born on October 3, 1976, in Gondia, she grew up like many othersโ€”wrapped in the routines of daily life, with little warning of what lay ahead. She married Ramesh, a mason with …

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The Attendant and the Superintendent

Remember Rama Jagtap? You should. The boy from Hinganghat village, the one who worked in the Paediatrics OPD in the late 1970s. Thin, eager, barely twenty, with eyes that held more hope than fear. He had just married. Life was beginning to bloom when a bolt struck from nowhere. Without warning, his services were terminated. …