The cricket bat was not merely decorative. Three years later, in the inter-college tournament of 1979, MGIMS faced an engineering college from Nagpur. The opposing team boasted two fast bowlers who had played in the Ranji Trophy, and MGIMS was floundering. Mehendale walked to the crease at number six. He faced a searing delivery and, … Read more
The Autopsy of Bad Data The complaint remained identical across three decades. A researcher would appear at Dr. Naresh Tyagi’s door—sometimes an anxious postgraduate student, sometimes a senior faculty member clutching a sheaf of handwritten data—and explain that they had conducted a study and now required his help with the analysis. Tyagi would adjust his … Read more
The Scrabble Game On most evenings in Vivekanand Colony, if you knocked on the Ghulianis’ door at the wrong moment, you would find a Scrabble board mid-game and two people quietly annoyed at the interruption—who would wave you warmly inside anyway. By day, Dr. K.K. Ghuliani moved through the Department of Community Medicine with the … Read more
In February 2018, Dr. Mohan Gupte walked back through the gates of MGIMS for the first time in thirty-five years. The campus had swelled—new architecture casting longer shadows, a sprawling hospital, corridors thick with a new generation of students—but he still knew its bones. These were the rooms where he had taught; these were the … Read more
Dr Sushila Nayar (1914–2001) was the physician who turned a Gandhian village experiment into one of India’s most influential rural medical institutions. Personal doctor to Mahatma Gandhi, Union Health Minister, and founder‑director of MGIMS, she spent a lifetime proving that modern medicine and social justice could walk together. In the winter of 1938, a twenty‑four‑year‑old … Read more