Overview

• She suffered a sudden heart attack while in Gorakhpur for a TMH Travelling School of Oncopathology program, according to colleagues.
• Her body was flown from Gorakhpur to Delhi and onward to Mumbai, where the family will finalise funeral arrangements.
• Pathologist Dr Sumeet Gujral, who was with her, said she “died doing what she loved” and proceeded with planned educational sessions.
• Across five decades, she led surgical pathology at Tata Memorial Hospital until 2004 and later directed key histopathology units at SRL and SL Raheja Hospital.
• Trained at Royal Marsden and Memorial Sloan Kettering, she chose to build cancer diagnostics in India, mentored generations, and was widely known as the “Queen of Histopathology.”