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A Handkerchief’s Tale: Memories with Indira Gandhi

After my recent Facebook post, Dr. Bajrang Prasad Pandey, an MGIMS graduate from the 1970 batch who later became a Pharmacology professor at BHU, Varanasi, shared an interesting story about Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s visit to Sevagram in the early 1970s. Mrs Gandhi had come to MGIMS to speak to a handful of medical students … Read more

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Dr. S. P. Kalantri

Physician–Teacher
MGIMS, Sevagram

Four decades of clinical practice, teaching, and writing at the crossroads of medicine, memory, and institutional history.

Books
Stetho
in
Sevagram
A physician’s memoir
Architects
of
MGIMS
An Institutional History

Themes

  • Ethics & Education
  • General Reflections
  • Heritage & History
  • Medical Practice
  • Personal Narratives
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