Daily Archives: 16/12/2025

G B Pant Hostel Agra

Back in the winter of 1979, when I, Dr. P.K. Gupta, stepped into Sarojini Naidu Medical College in Agra as a wide-eyed first-year MBBS student, everything felt like a grand adventure mixed with a dash of terror. The college was right there on Mahatma Gandhi Road, bustling with cycle rickshaws, street vendors hawking roasted peanuts, […]

Standard Treatment Guidelines for Management -(psychiatry part)of Burns

Standard Treatment Guidelines for Management of Burns A Guidance Document for Clinical Management and Rehabilitation of Burn Injuries in India Trauma and Burn Division Directorate General of Health Services Ministry of Health & Family Welfare Government of India 2025 A Guidance Document for Clinical Management and Rehabilitation of Burn Injuries in India Trauma and Burn […]

Mad Pride

Mad Pride is a social and activist movement that celebrates and reclaims “mad” identity for people who have experienced mental distress, psychiatric diagnoses, or mental health services. Participants view madness not solely as illness or deficit, but as a valid form of human diversity, often with creative, cultural, or spiritual value. The movement draws parallels […]

RAZDAN: The Custodians of State, Records, and Order in Kashmir

RAZDAN: The Custodians of State, Records, and Order in Kashmir Administrators, Record-Keepers, and the Backbone of Kashmiri Governance Among the historic surnames of Kashmiri Pandits, Razdan occupies a distinct and often underestimated position. Unlike lineages known primarily for ritual authority or philosophical exposition, the Razdans were architects of governance—men entrusted with records, revenue, law, and […]

Dr Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Barnard performed the world’s first human heart transplant because American medicine taught him how, then refused to let him do it. In the mid-1960s, heart transplantation was not a dream. It was a taboo. The science existed, but in the United States it was buried under legal fear, ethical paralysis, and institutional risk control. […]

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit: The Lamp of India – A Life of Elegance, Courage, and Unyielding Principle

Picture a young girl in the grand Anand Bhawan mansion in Allahabad, listening wide-eyed as her father, the formidable Motilal Nehru, debates politics with Mahatma Gandhi over tea. Born Swarup Kumari Nehru on August 18, 1900, she was the eldest daughter in a family destined to shape modern India. Her brother Jawaharlal, eleven years her […]

Nayantara Sahgal: A Life of Grace, Courage, and Elegant Defiance

Imagine a young girl growing up in the shadow of India’s freedom struggle, where prison visits to her father felt like adventures, complete with chocolate cake smuggled in by sympathetic British jailers. That girl was Nayantara Pandit, born on May 10, 1927, in Allahabad (now Prayagraj), the second daughter of Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit—India’s first woman […]

A Nostalgic Portrait: Dr. Anil Sharma, MD (Medicine)

Back in the bustling corridors of Sarojini Naidu Medical College in Agra, from 1979 to 1989, there was this quiet, unassuming guy named Anil Sharma. His classmate, Dr. PK Gupta, still chuckles when he recalls those days: “Arre yaar, Anil was the silent type – always buried in his books, never the one making noise […]

A Breath of Fresh Air: The Life and Soul of Dr. Puneet Tyagi

In the serene hills of Dehradun, where the air is crisp and the pace of life a little slower, Dr. Puneet Tyagi stands as a pillar of healing and quiet creativity. A renowned pulmonologist and critical care specialist with over 25 years of experience, he is currently the Medical Director and Senior Pulmonologist at Graphic […]