"Is the vomiting accompanied by cramps?""The patient's in the second stage of labour. She is waiting under the tallest neem tree in Kishanpura village!""Tie a tourniquet above the bite. And don't panic…"The snippets of conversations I was ...
I walked into the cavernous, dark room and drew back with a start. In that imperfect light, there were hundreds of eyes looking at me. Some were at my level, some lower and some, larger than my body. One of those faces sprang to life to a drumroll. ...
Whenever I used to think of dentists, tall males with impressive degrees, grimly doing their worst, oblivious to one's screams of agony, would come to mind. That was before I met Bhanwari Devi, the dentist at Tilonia's Barefoot College. Portly and ...
It was a dusty stone building, not unlike many that one sees in the desert. Outside, all was quiet in the heat of the day. From within, however, strains of a Colombian folk song redolent of the rain forest wafted through. I followed the music to the ...
Picture this. A young woman is walking down a small town street on a dark winter night. Two men spot her, and close in for a bout of sick evening entertainment. She hears them snicker and immediately takes out her phone to call for help. In the ...
It's ironic that April, with its scented breezes, sudden showers and languorous days, heralds the coming of a season of discontent for so many. Even as the children of the upper-classes celebrate their exam results in malls and bowling alleys, the ...
