He meant it literally. During his postgraduate years at King George’s Medical College in Lucknow, his research on the central action of Angiotensin II in dogs had begun with disaster — animal after animal dying under anaesthesia, an expensive imported reagent wasted, a supervising professor waiting for results that were not coming. The failure had … Read more
Professor & Head of Physiology · First Physiology PhD at MGIMS · The Man Who Counted His Blessings and Always Found Them More His father had given him a piece of advice that stayed with him for seventy years: make two columns in life, one for blessings and one for difficulties, and you will find … Read more
Professor & Head of Physiology · Thirty-Five Years at Sevagram · The Teacher Who Believed in Students Before They Believed in Themselves He drove at twenty kilometres an hour on Sevagram’s still streets. Whenever residents heard the unmistakably loud horn of his second-hand Maruti and saw him pull up with his courteous offer — “Can … Read more
Professor & Head of Physiology · Founding Faculty Member · The Man Who Made Students Feel What They Were Learning In his final hours, his children placed earphones in his ears. Bhimsen Joshi’s voice rose in a soulful abhang — Teertha Vitthala, kshetra Vitthala — and they were certain, as those who have loved someone … Read more
First Dean of MGIMS · Principal · Professor of Physiology · The Man Who Gave the Institution Its Administrative Spine Anyone who walked into Dr. Kharak Singh Sachdeva’s office at MGIMS for the first time learned quickly that the first thirty seconds were the most important. He was a tall man, traditionally turbaned, salt-and-pepper beard, … Read more