Stetho in Sevagram
Chapter 1
Roots and Shoots
Chapter 2
The Crucible
- Roll Number 49
- The Boy from Wardha
- When Medicine Spoke Only English
- Cycles and the Medico Bus
- Hanumannagar Days
- Arrivals by Detour
- Weekends at Shankar Nagar
- The First MBBS
- Life in the Boys’ hostel
- Boyd and Barbiturates
- Shadows of 1975
- Summer of the Cooler and the Lambretta
- Teachers, Terrors, and a Quiet Triumph
- Internship in Yavatmal
- Internship in Bhadrawati
- The House Officer
- Tryst with Dr B.S. Chaubey
- Residency: The Grind
- Poverty of Thoughts
- Residency: The Mastery
- The MD Trial
- Life in the PG Hostel
- The Things I Didn’t Do at GMC
- The Spectator Who Studied
Chapter 3
Arrival in Sevagram
Chapter 4
Widening Horizons
- The Kitchen Surgeon
- The Rhythm and the Record
- Taking the Helm
- The Press Near Rajkala Talkies
- The Bulletin Years
- Tales from the Typists
- The Institute’s Biography
- Quiz Day on a Shoestring
- The Art of the EBM
- Bapu Ki Beti, Hamari Behenji
- The Belgaum Bond
- The McMaster Calling
- Sevagram in the UK
- Labours of Love
- The Double-Blind Trial
- Amar Jesani and the IJME
- The Awards Paradox
Chapter 5
Student at Forty-Seven
Chapter 6
The Paper and the Digital
Chapter 7
The Administrator’s Chair
- The Reluctant Administrator
- The Colossus of Prena Kutir
- Dhirubhai Mehta
- The Custodian of the Ledger
- Three Rooms, One Hospital
- The Deans of Sevagram
- Playing the MS Innings
- The Numbers Game
- The Hundred Square Foot Office
- Three Rooms Where I Changed
- Science Without Sponsors
- The Price of a Prescription
- Clearing the Corridors
- The Graveyard of Paper
- A CT in a Village
- The Architecture of the Heart
- The Miracle in the Village
- The Summit of the Mountain
- The Shadow on the Summit
- The Origami of the Heart
- The Lifeline in the Machine
- The Shield of the Poor
- The Art of the Scrub
- Chasing the Score in Seven Minutes
- The Art of the Gentle Goodbye
- The Sanctuary of Twilight
- The Library on the Hillock
- The Making of a Mural
- The MS Office: Full Circle
- The Emergency Room Paradox
- The Diminishing Likeability Quotient
- Leaving on My Own Terms
- The Sevagram Send-off
Chapter 8
The Pandemic Years
- The Phantom and the Anatomy Hall
- The Battle for the Medical Soul
- The War Room
- The Oxygen Crisis
- The Architecture of Care
- The Heavy Toll
- The Epidemic Within
- The Anniversary Reflection
- Standing in the Storm
- The Studio and the Stethoscope
- The Digital Resistance
- The Poet as a Shield
- The Lessons of the Storm
Chapter 9
The Inner Circle
- The Patriarch
- The Silent Weaver
- The Final Lesson
- Graceful Exit
- The Custodian of Stories
- Jiji
- The Operating System
- The Godhuli Bela Wedding
- Ashwini Arrives
- Amrita Arrives
- Akhtar’s Auto
- Guidance Point
- The Sevagram Symphony: A Monsoon Wedding
- Amrita and Sahaj: A Sevagram Story
- Amrita’s Gold
- The Canine Coup
- Joyful Chaos
- The Silence of Brothers
Chapter 10
Beyond the Stethoscope
- Har ki Doon
- Monsoon Century-and-Half
- The Guangzhou Misadventure
- The Brevet That Broke My Confidence
- If It’s Not on Strava, It Didn’t Happen
- Crosswinds and Confidence
- Three Hundred, One Shadow
- Four Hundred, and a Wall
- Ten Thousand Kilometres
- A Life in Books
- Cricket, and the Crowd
- Two Hundred Classmates, Six Hundred Pages
Chapter 11
Reflections