Babulalji Ganvir: The Man Behind the Tea Stall
Every MGIMS alumnus from the first ten batches remembers him — not for his tea or his aloo bondas, but for the quiet generosity that saw students through lean months, with no ledger and no interest.
General Reflections
The Same Campfire
Watching The Odyssey with my twelve-year-old granddaughter led to an unexpected conversation about the similarities between Greek and Indian mythology. A week later, Devdutt Pattanaik explored the same idea in a thought-provoking video, reminding me that stories travel farther than civilizations.
The Myth of the Infallible Doctor
“I am not sure what it is.” I utter these words whenever I encounter a medical puzzle I cannot solve. “This is beyond my competence,” I reply to the WhatsApp messages flooding my phone at all hours. My patients hate it. They do not visit a clinic to buy hesitation. They want a physician who … Read the essay
Stringing the Bow: A Wardha Story
This afternoon I sat in a mall in Wardha and watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Near the end, Odysseus picks up the old bow that no suitor in his hall could bend, and strings it in one unhurried motion. The theatre went quiet. I had not expected that a film shot across six countries, on … Read the essay
A Normal Gastrointestinal Tract Is One That Has Not Been Scoped
A woman of forty walks into my OPD. She complains of “gases.” Some acidity, she says, a little heartburn, the odd burp that will not come up and will not go down. She has had this for years. It comes and goes with worry, with weddings, with festival food. Nothing about her story is alarming. … Read the essay