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I saw Sachin Tendulkar with my own eyes, this weekend at IFSO OSSICON in Mumbai. It’s one thing to see a legend on TV… It’s another to see them just a few meters away. When someone who has carried a billion hopes for years speaks in front of you, you feel their aura. And when […]

Yesterday, I got a call that made me pause. It was from the son of a patient I operated on eight years ago. She had come to me for laparoscopic fundoplication—a procedure to help with severe acid reflux due to hiatus hernia a weakness in the valve which controls our acid reflux. We met for

The other day, someone sent me a photo with a message: “I should have called and asked u to read this, but I took a pic instead and sent u a msg.” And it got me thinking. We all have phones. Not just phones—tiny, powerful computers in our hands. Yet, how often do we use

This is the time of year when we tend to get crazy over fancy diets or expensive gym memberships. Whether patients consult us for bariatric surgery or come to us while they’re still in a position to reset their lifestyle so they don’t need surgery… We always ask them to focus on the basics. Since

A lot of us live ad hoc.We wake up and move from one thing to the next—whatever feels urgent or exciting in the moment.The kids need breakfast, the work emails start piling up, our WhatsApp notifications won’t stop, and before we know it, the day’s gone.And then we pause for a moment—probably late at night—and

I am a true believer in new medical technologies for the betterment of the patients. These technologies are shattering the limits of medicine and bringing life-saving treatments to life that once seemed impossible. We especially need them in situations that have no definite treatment options other than surgery like hernia. Traditionally, hernia repairs relied on

I hit rock bottom in 2022 when my lift crashed, crushing my leg bone. Fear gripped me during those days. Have you ever felt fear so overwhelming that it paralyzed your thoughts? I felt this often early in my career. Sometimes, it was the fear of failure. Other times, the uncertainty of tomorrow. And always,

This is a question I’m often asked, so I’m writing to share what robotic surgery truly means and how far surgical techniques have advanced over time. First, let me share a milestone: in 2017, we became the first in the rest of Maharashtra to adopt robotic surgery for treatment of obesity. Since then, we’ve expanded

Every day, I hear about new diets, exercises, and hacks, and it blows my mind. It’s like a never-ending parade of quick fixes or extremes.But here’s the thing: we are not robots.We don’t need crash diets, punishing workouts, or magic hacks.What we need is something far simpler—a lifestyle we can actually live. The foundation of

I’ve been fortunate to learn from great mentors, and I’m still learning. This journey of growth has taught me that it’s my responsibility to pass it on. Recently, I had the privilege of mentoring 10 young surgeons on laparoscopic umbilical and inguinal hernia repairs. These were not beginners—they were already performing these surgeries. But they