16, 190 days—and still at the crease
I turned seventy last month and handed over the captaincy at MGIMS. After 16,190 days, I am not quite ready to leave the crease. The designation has changed; the wards, patients, teaching and the game go on.
General Reflections
Twenty-Seven Doctorates
A 3,978-name alumni database, checked record by record, turns up 24 verified PhDs from MGIMS Sevagram — not many, not none. Where they studied, who skipped the conventional MD first, and what the pattern does and doesn’t prove.
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.
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