One evening around half past nine, the phone rang in Dr. S.K. Ghosh’s quarters. The boys’ hostel mess had run out of aloo sabzi. Without deliberation, he pulled on his kurta and dhoti and walked over. He cooked a fresh batch for twenty or thirty students himself, right there in the hostel kitchen. They stood … Read more
Professor & Head of Anatomy · Literary Critic · Playwright · Painter · The Anatomist Who Wrote About the Gita at 3am At three in the morning, when Sevagram was entirely still, Dr. Govind Manohar Indurkar would sit at his desk and write about the Bhagavad Gita. The house was quiet, the grandchildren asleep, the … Read more
Professor & Head of Anatomy · Discoverer of the Rao & Rao Artery · The Professor Who Asked If You Had Eaten Breakfast He addressed every student as Babu. It was a Telugu term of affection — warm, familial, entirely at odds with the chilly formality that anatomy departments typically maintained. Before an examination, Dr. … Read more