When I first see the
woman, she is lying on a bed in a clean and spare room. She is unconscious, her
head thrown back, her neck muscles straining. She has swallowed poison in an
attempt to kill herself, and when we first enter this room where she lies
bedraggled and insensate, Dr Yogesh Jain looks up and says he is sick of
getting these cases.
This is the eighth or
ninth one he remembers in recent months, he says andadds that she has less than
a 10 per cent chance of survival.
It is
left Bombay for 17 years to study computer science and, once done with that, work. Since he got back, he's been trying to make up for lost time in many different ways. These days he writes for his daily zunka-bhakar. He lives in Bombay with his wife, their two children, and two cats.
