The essays on this site are not arranged chronologically alone. They are also grouped by recurring concerns—ideas, settings, and questions that return over time. The themes below offer one way of navigating this body of work.
A single essay may belong to more than one theme. These groupings are meant to aid exploration, not impose boundaries.
- Medicine and Clinical Practice
Reflections from bedside medicine, diagnostic uncertainty, and the everyday practice of internal medicine. - Evidence-Based Medicine
Essays on research, reasoning, trials, statistics, and the discipline of questioning what we do. - Medical Ethics and Professional Life
Writing on conflicts of interest, institutional culture, medical education, and moral dilemmas in practice. - Sevagram and Institutional Memory
Stories and recollections from MGIMS Sevagram—its people, places, traditions, and transformations. - Public Health and Social Contexts
Observations on health systems, inequality, resource-limited care, and the social determinants of illness. - Stories, Memory, and Reflection
Personal essays, portraits, obituaries, and moments that resist categorisation but demand remembrance.