SP Kalantri
SP Kalantri
𝘎𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯, Pendsey. 𝘞𝘪𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘩𝘵 𝘦𝘴 𝘐𝘩𝘯𝘦𝘯? 𝘜𝘯𝘥 Happy Birthday! It’s the 18th of May. Like always, I wake up thinking of you, 𝗗𝗿. 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱 𝗣𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘆. For years, I’d call and surprise you with my rusty German. You’d laugh, loudly. “𝘝𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘯 𝘋𝘢𝘯𝘬,” you’d say. Your accent was better. Your joy, louder. That laugh still echoes. …
It was the winter of 1991, and I was a young faculty member in the Department of Medicine at MGIMS, Sevagram. Life was simple, our means were modest, and our ambitions were shaped more by circumstance than by grand design. One day, a handwritten letter arrived from the President of the Indian Medical Association, Nagpur. …
ENT Surgeons “Lend us thy ears”, the six wise men from the class of 1973 would demand from the rest on 21 December. They share one thing- they all are Otolaryngologists! Interestingly, all six practice in Maharashtra- four in Vidarbha and two around Nashik. Dr Prakash Wakode has the distinction of being the Dean of …
A day before, Sharad Jaitly wrote a beautiful description of the city bus that would take the teenagers from the class of 1973 from Western Nagpur to GMC in 1973. The bus, Sharad recalls, would start from Vayu Sena Nagar- at 6:00 am Lakshmi Rao would be the first student to get into the bus …
Paisa Vasool! The fate of the second one-day match between India and Australia was almost decided even before Australian openers took guard. 350+ was too good a total for a very ordinary Australian batting line-up. This is a match Ponting would quickly like to forget: his bowlers gave away over 100 runs in the last …