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Walking Alone

7 January 20265 January 2026 by SP Kalantri

Reading Time: 3 minutesA song my mother loved returns on her hundredth birthday, carrying with it a life lived quietly—of faith, family, endurance, and an unspoken understanding that, in the end, we walk alone.

Categories Personal Narratives Tags Memory, Mother, Reflections 5 Comments

Dr. S.P. Kalantri
Dr. S.P. Kalantri

Dr. S. P. Kalantri is a physician and teacher at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, where he has practised medicine and taught students for over four decades.

His writing reflects on the everyday life of medicine—how doctors learn, decide, err, and endure—drawing on evidence-based practice, institutional memory, and the realities of caring for patients in resource-limited settings.

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