It is with a heavy heart that I inform you about the arrest of Dr. Binayak Sen, (MBBS alumnus batch of 1966). After a distinguished academic career in CMC, Vellore, Binayak was a faculty member at the Centre for Social Medicine and Community Health at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He left his academic appointment to work with a community based Rural Health Centre in the Hoshangabad District of Madhya Pradesh, focusing problems of tuberculosis. He then worked with mine workers in Dalli Rajahara addressing their health needs, helping them set up an effective system and enabling them to manage their own Shaheed Hospital. He then moved to a mission hospital in Tilda and later moved to Raipur. Over the past 15 years, he has been working towards developing relevant models of primary health care in Chhattisgarh. He was a member of the state advisory committee to initiate the community based health worker programme across Chhattisgarh, now well known as the Mitanin programme. In recognition of his work, the Christian Medical College, Vellore conferred the highest award – the Paul Harrison Award in 2004. In all that he has done, Binayak epitomises the true spirit of the Christian Medical College, Vellore and its motto “Not to be ministered unto but to minister”.