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“Garam Garam Bhuje Badaam leh lo Ji…”  That sound from the 1970’s still resonates in my ears!  The “Rehriwalas” with unshelled warm moongfali on Majitha Road would try to outshout…

In July of 1974, on the day of our medical exam, I had stood in front of the administrative building, reading on it's frontispiece the name Glancy Medical College. .…

Laziness, thy name is Baldev! Oxford medical dictionary defines laziness as: “quality of being unwilling to work or use energy”. I believe the definition needs to be modified. My personal…

Rewind to summer of 1974 and here we are being called “doctor sahib” by mess staff, pampering our ego. Land up in the hostel with Baldev as my room mate.…

I want to share the beautiful story of my friendship with Billa, which has been one of the most meaningful parts of my life. We first met in medical school,…

It was October of 2022. I went to Amritsar for an ophthalmology conference. In the evening, my wife and I were just whiling away time and strolling around ghala mala…

Vijay Bhalla brought a semblance of calmness, peace, tranquility, rationality and centration to this restless bunch of musketeers, Mavericks, eccentrics and irrationals. A very sincere, polite man of integrity and…

I have always thought of a ‘warrior’ and a ‘gentleman’ as mutually exclusive words. We can either be one or the other- not both. But then, “exception proves the rule”.…

My dear friend Vijay, though you are no longer with us physically, you've left an ocean of memories behind. I fondly remember those unforgettable days we spent together in school,…

ਰੱਬਾ ਤੂੰ ਮੇਰੀ ਜਵਾਨੀ ਲੌਟਾ ਦੇ ਮੈਡੀਕਲ ਕਾਲਜ਼ ਚ ਐਡਮਿਸ਼ਨ ਕਰਾ ਦੇ ਕੀਰਤੀ ਕੋਹਲੀ ਤੇ ਬਲਦੇਵ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਗੋਪਾਲ ਨਗਰ ਚ ਰੈਗਿੰਗ ਕਰਾ ਦੇ ਬੀ ਬਲਾਕ ਦਾ ਅਠੱਤੀ ਨੰਬਰ ਕਮਰਾ…