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Why I remember Dr Sandeep Kumar Dey Today

Last Thursday, a plane crashed in Ahmedabad. In just a moment, 274 lives were lostโ€”people on board and on the ground. As the news scrolled across my screen, something stirred deep inside me. A long-healed scar began to ache again. In that moment, I was transported back 25 yearsโ€”to another plane crash, another tragedy, another …

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Two Tragedies

Yesterdayโ€™s Air India tragedy in Ahmedabad, where 241 lives were lost within moments of takeoff, has left the nation grieving. For many of us, the news brought a wave of shock and sorrow. For some, it also stirred the memory of another flight, another heartbreak, from a time long past. In January 1966, ๐—Ÿ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ถ๐˜ Mahajan …

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๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—Ÿ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—›๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ฝ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—š๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—•๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ผ ๐— ๐—š๐—œ๐— ๐—ฆ

When Gandhiji was assassinated in January 1948, the world Dr. Sushila Nayar had built her life around collapsed. She was just 33. In the chaos that followed, she threw herself into relief workโ€”rescuing abducted women from the violence of riot-torn Punjab. Something inside her had broken. She had lost Bapu. And with him, the compass …

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The Jouney of MGIMS Library

Long before Sevagram became a sprawling campus of healing and learning, something quietly profound took root beside the Biochemistry lab on the ground floor of the old Kasturba hospital. It was 1969. The college was just finding its footingโ€”and so was its library. A single almirah, 35 books, one table, and two chairs. But what …

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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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Gandhi and the Mystery of Blood Pressure

โ€œYesterday, I took three drops of Sarpagandhaโ€”morning and evening. Walked and talked. Still, my blood pressure was 196/ 112. But thereโ€™s no cause for worry.โ€ โ€œI took three drops of Sarpagandhaโ€”morning and evening. Walked. Talked. Still, my blood pressure is 196 over 112. But thereโ€™s no cause for worry.โ€ A letter. Dated October 28, 1941. …

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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 …