Award Acceptance Speech This is a most cherished award- an award for pursuing research, which can be tough in the private sector with several competing demands on your time. There were many who believed I could and I am really grateful to each one who pushed me, stood by me and supported me, selflessly. […]
Champions Farmhouse Event Sunday dawned bright and sunny yet pleasant as the Champions trooped to a beautiful farmhouse at Chattarpur to have a fabulous time in each other’s company. FUN was the buzzword… Singing and dancing, Cricket, Kite flying, block building, painting or just basking in the sun! Thank you Manisha Kumar, Sushila Kasana Jainer, […]
Five Minutes of Inspiration When I finished surgical training and started my career in Oncology (which was purely by chance), I was not sure, if this is where I wanted to be. Oncology grew on me and I subspecialized in Breast Cancer… and surely, this did not dawn on me, suddenly. I was truly inspired… […]
ART OF COOKING Curtains were brought down on a month-long Breast Cancer Awareness campaign at Max Vaishali, in exemplary fashion. You would have been witness to several cookery shows but this event surely surpassed any that I have witnessed in the past. There were 9 teams with 4 participants each and they were all Champions, […]
A super exciting Sunday morning with a blitz of pink, this time, with Women bikers and Breast Cancer Champions and Caregivers donning pink jackets and absorbing the calm of the morning interrupted by the powerful Vroom! Vroom! of their mean machines. Flagged off by the 94 years old international athlete, Bhagwani Devi, along with Dr. […]
Excellent ABSICON… attractive format, well thought out debates, stimulating discussions, erudite faculty, superb participation, great hospitality and grand entertainment (Sufi performance was stupendous!)👏👏👏 A conference befitting ten years of ABSI!! I was there 10 years ago and this time was certainly special!! Heartening to see young, enthusiastic breast surgeons thronging the place to share their […]
Today is the culmination of the International Breast Feeding Week. I want to take your focus away from the goodness of breast milk and feeding, about which a lot has been said already. When my colleague’s young sister, who is nursing her two month baby, casually mentioned a lump in the breast, my colleague did […]
Teej Celebrations at Max Hospital Patparganj….this is where the Breast Support Group blossomed 8 years ago and gave wings to the aspirations of many of these courageous Champions. COVID kept us away from each other for the longest that we have stayed apart but now it was time to come together to celebrate yet again, […]
I am often asked why does breast cancer happen? And the only honest answer I come up with is ‘I don’t know. There are risk factors but there is no absolute association of breast cancer with these risk factors! Not a very confidence inspiring answer but that is the reality. The truth is that in […]
My young colleague’s husband has started his career as a Surgical Oncologist and has started feeling the pressure of external ‘expectations’ His idealism is intact and he wants to offer his services with utmost integrity, empathy and skill. However, the world of touts and middlemen, take it upon themselves to paint a bleak future for […]
Thank you, Murari Bhaiyya! The time on the clock is 2.00pm and surely the gastric juices searching for food can only grumble and growl in the stomachs of surgeons who have been relentlessly operating since morning. My team is no different. In between cases, lunch happens and the provider is a gentle, well mannered, Murari […]
Six years ago, I underwent surgery for my spine. Before it materialised, I had lived with pain for almost 16 months. The pain would come on every time I got up from bed or from a chair and it would be only after a few deep breaths that I could walk. If I wanted to […]
