Nigeria, March 7 -- More than three decades have passed, yet his figure remains vivid in my memory. Professor Singh, whose middle name now escapes me, was tall, almost gaunt, animated in gesture, and generous in spirit. He stood before us in our second year Human Anatomy class and lectured on this congenital heart condition called Tetralogy of Fallot. He spoke with the confidence of a man who believed Medicine is not merely a science but a civilisational inheritance. At the time, many Indian physicians had migrated to Nigeria, teaching in medical schools such as mine, while running private clinics to supplement their modest academic salaries. He had been seconded to us from the University of Calabar, his place of primary institutional aff...