In Memoriam

  • On the passing of Dr. R. N. Ghosh (June 2024) 

    On the passing of Dr. R. N. Ghosh (June 2024) 

    It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved treating physician and Friends of Max supporter, Dr. R. N. Ghosh who also consulted at Saroj Gupta Cancer Centre & Research Institute, Kolkata. His unwavering commitment and contribution to cancer patient care and Friends of Max (for over two decades) will be…

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  • Tributes to Rajan

    Tributes to Rajan

    This is a very sad news. I still remember meeting him at the first All India Meet in Mumbai and the last entertainment piece where he and Shabbir Bhai danced. I even saw that video that was played in Hyd meet . May his soul rest in peace. -SR, Chennai

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  • He flaunted his CML proudly beside his name

    He flaunted his CML proudly beside his name

      …and his signature and catch line was “Life is larger than Livelihood” Some days ago he sent me this Viji , just came across a poem in hindi and …… The rough translation of the poem runs thus: “I am a traveler and in my journey I have met many; Time has washed my ego,…

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  • Shabbir RIP

    Shabbir RIP

    And because I love this life I know I shall love death as well The child cries out when From the right breast the mother Takes it away , in the very next moment To find in the left one Its consolation. Rabindranath Tagore , from Gitanjali

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  • Binu Mathew – A tribute

    Binu Mathew – A tribute

    Unable are the loved to die.  For love is immortality.  ~Emily Dickinson I met Binu for the first time much after having had many conversations with him over the phone. It was at the first Friends of Max meeting we had convened in Bangalore in 2003 .   

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  • In honour and loving memory

    In honour and loving memory

    Brigadier Dr R N Dutta one of the senior most GIPAP physicians in India died on the 2nd of this month. he was ailing and well past his eight decade in this world but still the news came as a shock. He was so beloved to all of us. This was the message we sent…

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  • Ravi Ahuja reports…

    Ravi Ahuja reports…

    …on FOM Delhi’s meeting to honour the memory of Rakesh Nagpal    Although I am not good at expressing in words, even then I am going to try to summarize a report of our September 12th meet. FOM Delhi Meeting: read on  The Meet for this day was planned long back, somewhere in June’09 at…

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  • Death be not proud

    {mosimage} “What can you say about a twenty-five-year-old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant? That she loved Mozart and Bach, the Beatles, and me? “ What touched me most about these lines from Love Story was the finality of the loss. Now, decades after I first read it and in a moment…

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