Suggested questions

1You’ve built a career in one of the most demanding corners of medicine. What pulled you toward cancer surgery in the first place, and when did it start to feel like this was the work you were meant to do?

2You trained across India, the UK, and the US. Looking back, what did that journey teach you about ambition, adaptation, and what it really takes to keep moving forward in unfamiliar systems?

3A lot of people hear “robotic surgery” and imagine a neat, futuristic process. What does the reality look like when you’re operating on cancer, where the disease doesn’t follow a script?

4When people talk about AI replacing surgeons, what do they usually misunderstand about what actually happens in the operating room?

5You were early to robotic surgery, well before most people were talking about it in mainstream conversations. What did you see in that field that made you want to commit to it so early?

6There’s a lot of public fascination with living longer, but much less honesty about the diseases that make those extra years harder. What do you wish more people understood about the gap between longevity culture and the realities of cancer and obesity?

7In your work, you’re dealing with women’s cancers at the highest level of complexity. What are some of the conversations around women’s health that still feel far too shallow or overlooked?

8Telesurgery and AI are opening up possibilities that would have sounded impossible not long ago. What feels genuinely promising to you right now, and what still belongs more to imagination than reality?

9You’ve talked about wanting to reach a broader public audience because a lot of the people shaping these conversations aren’t the ones doing the work every day. What changes when the person explaining the future of medicine is someone who has actually held the scalpel?

10After everything you’ve seen so far, what still gives you a sense of curiosity about where medicine is going next?