Panduranga Rao
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So the closest thing I could get to certify that somebody had passed was to look at the pupil.
So I said, okay, at least get me a flashlight.
And so he readily ran and got a flashlight.
And as you know, all the train ticket examiners in India, they carry a flashlight, which is five feet long.
So he got this huge flashlight and I had to go back and shine it.
And then lo behold, the pupils were dilated, and indeed, this poor chap had passed.
And so they gave me the papers, and I certified him as dead.
It was a very sad event, but I nonetheless did that, and it was with a sense of some accomplishment that I did that.
And then I started walking back to my third class seat.
By the time the word had spread,
that there is this doctor among our midst who actually certified a patient to have passed.
And because of that, he saved us eight hours of waiting.
And then when I sat there, immediately everybody gathered around me and asked me where I was from.
And it was at that time I suddenly realized who I was and what it meant to be a doctor.
that despite doing something so intensely sad, despite doing something which should actually cause so much of grief, I yet managed to bring so much of comfort and stability to everybody else around me.