Mrs Behere

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMrs Mani Behere—passed away today evening at her home in Sevagram. For over a decade, she had worked in our department of Psychiatry as a faculty. A kind-hearted woman—always sporting a genuine smile on her face, and exuding warmth and love—she fought a long battle with metastatic breast cancer and endured her illness with fortitude. … Read more

Naushadnama

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Reading Time: 2 minutesLast week, I re-discovered the golden era of Hindi film music. I picked up a book that took me to an era when the rhythm was the king. I read the entire book—cover to cover— and learnt a great deal about Naushad, the last Mughal Musician and his contemporaries: C Ramchandra, Anil Biswas, Shankar-Jaikishan, Kalyanji-Anandji, … Read more

Cricket records have a very short half life!

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteHow long do the records in International Cricket last? And how quickly do they tumble? Today, at Auckland, Martin Guptill’s 19-ball record for fastest New Zealand fifty lasted barely for 20 minutes. He got out in the seventh over; in came Colin Munro, and he began to treat Sri Lankan bowlers with a ferocity that … Read more

Dr (Mrs) Lata Patil

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDr (Mrs) Lata Patil —Samir Patil’s (MGIMS Class of 1993) mother—died this morning of metastatic cancer in a private facility at Nagpur after fighting malignancy for more than a year. She was 71. She is survived by her husband, Dr.SM Patil—the well-known physician and two children- both doctors. Dr (Mrs) Lata Patil taught me Medicine … Read more

Dr (Mrs) Savita Borle

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDr (Mrs) Savita Borle passed away this afternoon after enduring a stormy illness. She was 53. Detected to have metastatic thyroid cancer a few months back, Mrs Borle faced her advanced cancer with remarkable poise and indomitable stoic.  A dental surgeon by profession, she had been a faculty in Dental Surgery at MGIMS since the … Read more

Dr ML Sharma

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Reading Time: 2 minutesDr ML Sharma, one of the greatest teachers at MGIMS, passed away today morning. He died at his home after a prolonged illness. He was 85. Dr ML Sharma had taught Pharmacology to a generation of medical students and the batches from 1969 through 2000 can never forget the passion with which he taught his … Read more

Dr Anil Sharma

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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe first time I met Anil was in the winter of 1973. In August 1973, I got into Government Medical College, Nagpur and used to commute from my room to the college on a second-hand bicycle. In November, as I returned from the Anatomy Dissection hall, I found that my cycle was missing from the … Read more

Dr ML Sharma

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Reading Time: 4 minutesDr ML Sharma, one of the greatest teachers at MGIMS, died at his home after a prolonged illness on August 10, 2015. He was 85. Associated with MGIMS almost right from its inception, Dr ML Sharma taught Pharmacology to a generation of medical students. Medical students at MGIMS (batches from the early 1970s to late … Read more

Minions: Fun and Pleasure!

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Reading Time: < 1 minuteNinety minutes- filled with pure fun and humour. Yesterday evening little did I realize when my son drove our family to Nagpur that a movie could be so rib-tickling. Indeed, I enjoyed the movie as much as Diti— my two-and-half-year old granddaughter—did. We spent Saturday evening in Nagpur watching Minions, a 3-D computer-animated comedy movie … Read more