Read ‘The Story of My Life – My Experiments with Truth’ by MK Gandhi. When you read the autobiography of a person who is exactly 100 years your senior, it makes for interesting comparison. Gandhi was born in 1869, yours truly in 1969. As I type this out, Gandhi was starting on his experiments in … Read more

We cycled to Alandi and stopped on the way back at Vishrantwadi to catch up with Sachin Kher, who had cycled from Baner to have breakfast. (First round for him, second round for us.) As we were chatting up at Vishrantwadi, a guy in a yellow shirt stepped down from a PMPML bus. We recognised … Read more

My friend Amit Patil introduced me to the Mumbai based Vijay Kanuru. Vijay has done his PhD at Cambridge, in battery related nano technology. He followed it up with a postDoc at Cornell. Vijay is a rare breed – in the sense after this over exposure to academics, he jumped into the rough and tough … Read more

Smita is a good friend who is only 55 but has the fitness of a hyperactive 5 year old. Earlier was operations head at Abs, one of the largest chain of gyms in Pune. ICC on SB Road and Magarpatta are the biggest centers for Abs. Annual individual collections are upwards of 3 cr from … Read more

Most of us when asked to choose a role model in history would choose Shivaji Maharaj. If all of us become Shivajis, then who is going to be the Maval? Doctors need to remember that they are part of a team. And they need to ask for help in managing patients better. For example: Get … Read more

Sunetra Roday was the chief guest at the Republic Day function in Jan 20. Sunetra ji’s main talk was on eating healthy and eating safe. In her story she mentioned Chintu, Pintu and Mintu. Chintu brings poli bhaji in his dabba. Pintu brings Varan Bhat, but Mintu brings Maggi noodles, wafers, chocolate, cream rolls. Mintu … Read more