A Hundred Lamps - Classic Stories about the World of Medicine by Yatish Agarwal (Ed)

Author:Yatish Agarwal (Ed)
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Published: 2016-04-20T08:06:18+00:00

The director of the health operation carried out through the state government was Dr D N Mishra, former senior physician in-charge of the Primary Health Centre, Vidhanpur, who had had Dr Wakankar transferred from Vidhanpur to Dhingar Gaon, and whose alleged purchase of bad glucose had directly led to the death of Harvamsh Pandit, alias Thukra Mahraj. After a number of promotions, Dr D N

Mishra was now deputy director of Bhopal s Institute of Medical Sciences.

Dr Wakankar remembered well his days in Vidhanpur. H e could see, as if it were happening in front of him right now, Thukra Mahraj at the Sangh Branch walking alone in the schoolyard with his lathi and chain-strung bow, singing:

Sujalaam suphalaam malayajasheetalaam Maataram

Vande maataram!

Then Thukra Mahraj had an asthma attack and started struggling for breath. The lathi fell out of his hand, but he clutched the bow i firmly against his chest. His lungs ballooned out for every breath and the chain of his bow reverberated in time with the torturous bellowing in and out of his ribcage.

Dr Wakankar opened his eyes. The room was dark. The vision he had just had was probably also part of this absurd reality.

The doctor was unable to sleep. He picked up Tilak s Gita Rahasya and continued reading.

(Excerpted from the translation And Finally... Prayer by Robert A Hueckstedt, based on Uday Prakash's original Hindi novella Aur Ant Mein Prarthana, first published in Hans, in August and September 1992.) 104 • Uday Prakash

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