After quite a while, it was a quiet Sunday at home. I mean, we're in town and the only outing that was planned for the day was to look up Radhakrishnan, at Aluva, who'd lost his wife in a tragic road accident three weeks ago. Being a Sunday, the roads were comparatively less crowded and the drive took no more than half an hour, only because I wasn't familiar with the route!
He's come out of it unscathed, at least when viewed externally. But his internal trauma could be too intense to fade as he considers himself guilty about having caused his wife's tragic end. And having been an earlier owner of a couple of buses, he seems to be pretty sure that the private bus that had caused the accident had actually rammed him from behind and that their alibi of the brakes having failed was a big hoax! (I didn't ask him to elaborate upon his suspicion but the input did confirm my earlier surmise that most of the vehicles, plying on the roads of Kochi, flouted rules without any concern about the safety of the passenger, the other motorists or the pedestrians!)
As of now, Radhakrishnan is nursing two external injuries viz.:-
(a) A shattered left leg, held in place by a steel rod that will take about three months to heal. For that he
needs to remain in bed on his back, restricting all his movements.
(b) A torn right ear lobe put back in its place by a series of stitches which seems to be giving him a lot of
pain.
We'd returned after being with him for a good part of the forenoon with a promise to look him up again. His younger daughter, Ammu's engagement is the event that he's looking forward to eagerly and mumbles that the boy has been 'cleared' by his wife a few days prior to her end!
Tailpiece.
It was sad to hear about the passing away of Rusi Surti, the all rounder of the Indian cricket team of the '60s and the early '70s. He was 76 and had suffered a massive heart attack, a few days back, and was being treated at the Jaslok hospital in Bombay.
His fielding prowess was legendary and his all round performances were always a treat to hear and read about those days, before the advent of television in our country.
Bowing to a legend. RIP Mr. Surti!
He's come out of it unscathed, at least when viewed externally. But his internal trauma could be too intense to fade as he considers himself guilty about having caused his wife's tragic end. And having been an earlier owner of a couple of buses, he seems to be pretty sure that the private bus that had caused the accident had actually rammed him from behind and that their alibi of the brakes having failed was a big hoax! (I didn't ask him to elaborate upon his suspicion but the input did confirm my earlier surmise that most of the vehicles, plying on the roads of Kochi, flouted rules without any concern about the safety of the passenger, the other motorists or the pedestrians!)
As of now, Radhakrishnan is nursing two external injuries viz.:-
(a) A shattered left leg, held in place by a steel rod that will take about three months to heal. For that he
needs to remain in bed on his back, restricting all his movements.
(b) A torn right ear lobe put back in its place by a series of stitches which seems to be giving him a lot of
pain.
We'd returned after being with him for a good part of the forenoon with a promise to look him up again. His younger daughter, Ammu's engagement is the event that he's looking forward to eagerly and mumbles that the boy has been 'cleared' by his wife a few days prior to her end!
Tailpiece.
It was sad to hear about the passing away of Rusi Surti, the all rounder of the Indian cricket team of the '60s and the early '70s. He was 76 and had suffered a massive heart attack, a few days back, and was being treated at the Jaslok hospital in Bombay.
His fielding prowess was legendary and his all round performances were always a treat to hear and read about those days, before the advent of television in our country.
Bowing to a legend. RIP Mr. Surti!
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