Preface

This story, The Lady House Surgeon is

All concocted, All imaginary

 and  relates to none.

 Any resemblance with characters,

Events and Places,  if any, may be a mere chance.

  The Lady Characters like Prerna and Reema are

All imaginary and fictitious

And never existed in flesh and blood.

Prerna is just like the Lucy Gray of Wordsworth.

Every effort has been made

and much pains has been taken

to make the story look and feel

true and real.

The main aim of the story is to create

Awareness about AIDS and

Prevention of Heart Attacks.

There is a discussion about

 Waltman-Walter syndrome a  very rare complication of Gall Bladder surgery .

When the synopsis of this story

Was shown to the family members

None were none-too-pleased.

Persons who appreciated this story

Were none other than my youngest son,

Mr. Ashish Baidyanathan &

My youngest daughter

Ms. Apurva Baidyanathan,

Who not only appreciated but also

Inspired me very much.

My wife was angry and agitated

On the mere ground that this story appears to be very sexy and dialogues will go against my

Prestige and personality.

She tore and burnt the synopsis to ashes.

But she didn’t know that the story was written on my soul in tears.

Then I narrated the trouble and showed the  Story to an educationist friend of mine

Who is a lady Principal.

She is very homely and friendly to me.

I asked her “Will any of the dialogues of the story go against my prestige and personality?”

She replied,” this story is meant for persons

Who have ever loved someone truly,

 Who have a heart in their thoracic cavity to feel

And tears in their eyes to shed.

I don’t know whether this story will be appreciated locally or not due to various reasons. But I can assure you

That this story will

Sell like hot cake all over India and abroad.

As this story is very touchy,

Very simple and suitable

Words have been used in a musical tone,

Emotions and dialogues seem to be

Quite real and natural,

 Besides, this story is filled with female psychology, philosophy of life.

I have never come across a story

 written like this.

 This is  unique in its approach and style.

I can’t explain the why, but I believe this

as the real incident

which often happens in the go of life.

Love does not count on caste, creed, religion, richness or poverty. It is a trait of living beings. Flower attracts bees, this is a chemical process known as chemotaxis .what to talk of living beings, magnet attracts iron not gold, this is called affinity or true love.

Nobody is at fault then why to feel guilty.

Actually this story resembles the English film ‘Titanic’. In Titanic a very old lady remembers her pre- marital love, likewise in this story a very old surgeon has remembered his love with a girl of his class while in medical college.

In  both the stories the ladies-love were unduly rich compared to the male protagonists

In the movie, Titanic the story starts

With the ship and ends with the sinking of the ship.

 This story , too, starts with entry into a

Medical college and ends with the

Finishing of medical course.

And both the stories ended in tragedy.

I personally feel that you could not restrict yourself to a stethoscope or surgical knives,

 It is most unbecoming, unbefitting,

unusual and uncommon for a surgeon

To have such a deep sense of literature.

 I really, appreciate this 

  Story very much.

It is really very easy to speak

but hard to keep mum.

It is really very easy to criticize

But Hard to appreciate.”