From Monisha Choudhury
(Companion post to Voyage of Misery)
It was in 1975. I was an Intern. All my classmates were preparing for USMLE to go to USA after giving their exams in Lahore, crossing Attari border by train or giving exams in Colombo. I remember you (Biswajit Basu) promised to pay Rs 4000/- for my USA flight, if I went.
But with both parents admitted in Safdarjung Hospital, I stalled everything. I remember Daddy coming home in an Auto from his clinic in Sarojini Nagar and the auto hit a stationary cement mixer in the dark somewhere on ring road near Kidwai Nagar. I was in Pediatric emergency when my friends desperately located me to tell me Daddy was in Casualty with a blunt head injury. It was a nightmare after that. I called all the senior doctors in SJH. Fortunately he did not need intervention. Somehow after that he had a downhill course and suffered a life-threatening stroke in 1984.
L-R: Monisha Basu, Lt. Col. MK Basu, Anima Basu, Biswajit Basu
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