5 April 2026

Nobody Names Their Child Sanjay Anymore

SP Kalantri, a physician at MGIMS, Sevagram, founded in 1969, studies 3,978 alumni names over 55 years and discovers how first names changed over the last two decades.

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๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—˜๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—น๐˜† ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿต๐Ÿด๐Ÿฌ๐˜€: ๐—” ๐—š๐—น๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฃ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐— ๐—š๐—œ๐— ๐—ฆ ๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฎ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ

It was a scorching afternoon on May 4th, 1982, when I first stepped into the medicine ward at MGIMS in Sevagram. Unlike the bustling government medical college in Nagpur where I had trained, this hospital felt serene and peaceful. As I walked in, I noticed a dishevelled resident performing a pleural tap at a patient’s … Read more

๐—ฆ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—˜๐—บ๐—ฝ๐˜๐˜† ๐—›๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น: ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—Ÿ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฑ

A few years ago, I was invited to speak about snakebites at an annual conference in Nagpur. As a physician who had treated hundreds of patients with venomous snakebites, I was excited to share my experience. On that Sunday morning, as I arrived at the conference hall 15 minutes early, I found only two people … Read more

The MGIMS Library

Where did the idea come from? Shailaja Asawe, a niece of Bhavana’s mother, often shares a proud and cherished memory with me. She recounts the day Bhavana was born, proudly exclaiming that as a 10-year-old girl, she was one of the first to lay eyes on the newborn. Every time we meet, Shailaja fondly reminisces … Read more