Saturday, May 24, 2008

A promise broken

If any soul has been watching the television anytime through last week he might know what i am alluding to. What should i call the crime committed? Its was a crime in cold blood, a crime against a human, against a child but all said and done the most ghastly aspect of this crime was the person who did it. A fathers face, who apparently has killed his only daughter, was constantly being flashed on almost all news channels....
The first reaction was of disbelief. How could a man commit murder, that of his own daughter? We have heard of ghastly acts before but what makes one shudder is at it happened in the supposedly safe confine of a home of a "white collar" fraternity. Dr. ramesh talwar has become a household name in just a few days. the channels have done in days what marketing companies do in months.

The unfortunate soul, dr. talwars 14 year old daughter, Arushi was just about to turn 15 when fate caught up. Until now her father has been arrested and remanded to police custody but her mother has still stood by her husband. Whether he shall be implicated or will the case meander on as thousands of other similar cases is not the point. The implicit foundation of any relation is a promise. As long as the promise is kept the relation holds. Mr talwar should know better being a doctor himself. therefore not only his crime more heinous but also an eye opener for all of us.

A respected doctor, how many patients he may have treated? All of them had trust in him was why they had come to be treated by him. Its this trust that was followed in the patient-doctor relationship. but when it came to the personal front he showed how a human could fail. When people go to a doctor they look to him as a savior, a life saver. After the events of last week ppl would definitely see doctors as humans. As fallible as them if not more....

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