Passion ( The Man From Dhule')

Prof Vilas Shah

In Conversation With Dr Anil Mulpur

 If you have to get to place B then you can do that only if you start from place A . Going to place C is also only possible through place A. However if you have to go to C from B then you either come back to A and proceed from there to C or alternatively go to place B to D to E take a detour to place F and from there directly come back to A and then proceed to C. Both the options are right. However going from B to D to E To F and A To C is not only time consuming but tedious also. What do you want to do? It is upto you . Would you like to spend more time going the circuitous route or take the direct one? Project management more or less sums up the philosophy of life . All along the teaching in our formative years and thereafter has always stressed an adopting the shortest and direct route.

But there are people in this world who would want us to stray from the direct and difficult route. Project Managers help us achieve the goal in the shortest possible time. And that is what Prof Vilas Shah struck us as . We would trust him to help us work out the various pros and cons in a difficult situation. After serving as the principal of an engineering college of more than 3500 students for more than ten years he gave it all up to pursue the passion of his life; Teaching. That requires real guts and dedication . He seems to have it in plenty. Right from the start of the class he had our attention with his soft spoken   attitude and devotion to his job. Soon we were tackling the ins and outs of project management with ease and  without the fear of the unknown. In short it was an enjoyable class. He was an out spoken advocate of the need to have project management certification within the country - which sadly was far from happening in the near future. We support him in this endeavour of his and hope that it will soon be a reality....

Soon - much too soon - the first session on the project management came to an end . We had to proceed to the other establishment of ASCI at the Banjara hills to attend the lecture by Dr Anil Mulpur. Dr Mulpur is a noted cardio thoracic surgeon working at present at at the Sunshine Heart institute in the Banjara hills at Hyderabad. Here was another human being who was so passionate about his work that he gave up a lucrative practice at England  to serve the people at Hyderabad. His skill and passion did not end at setting defective hearts right but he was also an able administrator who knew the ins and outs of law, management of hospitals and dealing with the civil organization to ensure that there were no glitches when dealing with his patients. His passion and expertise manifested itself in the three hours lecture that he took on the subject. Not once could we fault him for being repetitive and boring . He exposed us to the good ,the bad and the ugly of medical care , liberally quoting from the scriptures to underline the need for forthrightness , should we decide to take up hospital management as a profession , post retirement. His ability also was evident when he took questions at the end of  the grueling session and answered them with a lot of patience.His methods reminded us of another professional earlier in the day.... Finally when we ran out of questions it was already eight'o' clock in the evening .

We would like to label this as one of our most satisfying and complete days....A notable feature of the evening was the freshers who were attending the lecture by Dr Mulpur . Their fresh faces enthusiasm and desire to succeed in the profession of their choice (Hospital Management ) was heartening to see - the only thing in common with them was we were also looking for new professions to work at... post retirement...