SP Kalantri
SP Kalantri
Sevagram General Store: The One-Stop Shop for Village Life In Sevagram in the mid-seventies, the medical college was just six years old. There were neither big showrooms nor fancy shops, no cinemas or luxury shopping malls. Only one bus would ply between Sevagram and Wardha; a cycle rickshaw would take an hour and a half …
ECG is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Kiran Munjewar. He met me this morning in the hospital and I seized the opportunity to speak to him. Munjewar was an ECG technician. He is estimated to have recorded close to half a million ECGs in a career that spanned four …
Wasudeo. Does this name evoke a memory of a person who you met and spoke to during your Sevagram days? You surely would recall him—this man- Friday from the dean’s office knew the art of getting the impossible done. He spent four decades in Sevagram (1969- 2007) and is still remembered for his work. I spoke …
Beginning 1969—and through 2015— fifteen MGIMS students have an alluring ancestry: their parents also graduated from MGIMS. Will having parents who spent their formative years in Sevagram inspire their children? Or will it completely freak them out? It can cut both ways. Being cut from the same Khadi could make life easy. And at times …
Kasturba Hospital. What, why, how, where and when? A PowerPoint presentation.
They say that handwriting is more connected to the movement of heart. In this era of emojis and keyboard fonts, getting a beautifully hand written letter is really precious ! And that too from a very distinguished and respected teacher. This beautiful writing is a reflection of a beautiful heart and a kind soul
Numbers. Everybody loves them. We judge cricketers by the runs they accumulate, centuries they score, wickets they earn and the catches they grab. In sixties, a certain Kumar earned a sobriquet “Jubilee Kumar” because his almost every movie would end up running for as long as 25 weeks in theatres. And the charisma of Jeff …
MGIMS started in 1969. Not sure if Sevagram would offer them a post-graduation during the formative years, the students from the first four batches toiled tenaciously to obtain the coveted qualification by moving out after internship. Here are some interesting numbers from the 1969 to 1972 MGIMS batches. Eight MGIMS students, from the 1969-1972 batches, …
MGIMS began to offer post-graduation programs in all specialties in the late seventies. The 1974 batch was the first batch to benefit— MGIMS gave this batch an opportunity to do post-graduation almost on a platter. Soon, 17 students from this batch metamorphosed as residents in their own alma mater. A handful of students from the …
Many MGIMS alumni began to get curious and asked me if I could share the top 10 last name list. I lowered the bar and picked up last names with at least 10 frequencies. Forty seven last names – MGIMS has a total of 2213 unique last names- occupied the most common last name list. …