Panduranga Rao

Where's Dr. Pandu?

And suddenly there was silence and everybody became very alert.

You know, who's this Dr. Pandu among us?

And then I very, you know, bravely raised my hand and said, I'm here.

And they said, do you mind coming with me, sir?

I said, sure.

I felt very important and then walked along with him.

And we went right up to the end of the train.

And even as I approached the end of the train, I knew there was something sinister and bad which was going to happen.

And at the end of the train, propped up in the last seat in the train compartment was this very old man who had died.

And as we came closer, the ticket checker turned to me and said, sir, we want your help in this case.

So I thought he was going to ask me to find out what's going on.

Then he deflated me by telling,

we actually know this person is dead.

So then I looked at him and said, what do you want me for?

He said, well, we want you to certify that he's dead because if you don't certify that he's dead, we have to stop the train at the next station.

take him out to the rear nearest railway hospital in an ambulance get him certified there and then bring him back to the train and there's going to be a delay of eight hours and so I said okay that seems like a reasonable request can you get me a stethoscope

So he looked at me and asked, what is that?

I said, well, I need to check his heart.

He said, no, we don't have any of that here.