SQUARING OFF THE CIRCLES
Many years ago, when I was an intern, the college held a debate on “Should doctors marry only doctors” I spoke then for the motion, but for totally different reasons. I was familiar with the wife of one of our senior very prominent professors, who happened to be in charge of the Adult education department of thee Rajasthan University. I just happened to ask her how it felt to be married to such an eminent doctor. Her answer didn’t quite intrigue me, for she felt that the doctors are the most insipid dry and drab kind of persons…the most unclubbable people of the lot. I voiced these very sentiments and offered that the only and easiest way to put an end to the lot was for them to marry each other, and thus ruin just one family and household rather than two. To top it off I concluded with a question to those doctors in the audience who were married to doctors whether given a second chance they would commit the same folly again. My speech was greeted with a deafening silence.