During week days, I watch the programme, 'Code Red' aired between 2230 and 2330h on the Colors television channel and I must say that I've got hooked on to it because it covers the quaint traditions, customs and practices prevalent in various parts of our country and each day's episode covers one story, based on real life incidents.
Recently, there was this story about an 'out-of-the-body' experience in a Calcutta based hospital. It was about nurse Sandhya, who used to be committed and caring about the patients under her charge. In the course of her work, she stumbles upon the wrong doings on the part of the head of the medicine purchase cell who incapacitates her and converts her into a living vegetable when she threatens to blow the lid off the unethical, covert practice.
She'd, by then, acquired a lot many admirers from among the patients, their attendants and the members of the hospital staff and they decide to put her in 'Room number 6' where she was privy to special attention and a liberal dose of 'Rabindra sangeet' - her vegetative state, notwithstanding (Reminded me about the recently deceased nurse Aruna Shanbaug of the Bombay Hospital). Stories abound among the inmates of the hospital about Sandhya - always on vigilant rounds - to ensure that nothing went wrong in the hospital!
My take.
I've touched upon this aspect earlier too but in a different context. The 'out-of-the-body' phenomenon is something that all of us would have experienced, many a time, in the course of our lives. Let me try to explain....
One is deep in thought about a past event or an individual and before one realises, the mind(or is it the soul?) gets tranferred to those circumstances and after a brief stay out there, returns to the body as though nothing had happened! The apprehension I'd shared in my earlier story was that the mind always returned to its own body and I'd wondered at the unlikely possibility of the minds switching bodies on return and the resulting confusion/catastrophe that it would create!
Adieu Omar Sharif.
Another of my favourite actors has passed into the mist of time. He was 83 and was suffering from the dreaded Alzheimer's illness. I remember my first movie of his, Dr. Zhivago, where he'd acted in the title role so effortlessly and having developed a liking for his way of acting saw, 'Lawrence of Arabia' in which he'd acted as Sherif Ali - at first sceptical and goes on to become a loyal friend of Lawrence, played by Peter O'Toole. I've also seen him in Jenghiz Khan, The Yellow Rolls Royce, The Night of the Generals, Funny Girl, The Appointment and Mackenna's gold - in fact, have seen them an umpteen number of times!
An Egyptian by birth, he'd married his co-star, Faten Hamama, in '55 and divorced her in '74 (Incidentally, she had died earlier, in January, this year at the age of 83!). Their son, Tarek, acted as the young 'Yuri Zhivago' in Dr. Zhivago when he was nine years old.
RIP, Omar Sharif! My salute to a fine actor!!
Tailpiece.
Another one of those hectic days and I was able to catch up with a whole lot of work that had piled up!
Recently, there was this story about an 'out-of-the-body' experience in a Calcutta based hospital. It was about nurse Sandhya, who used to be committed and caring about the patients under her charge. In the course of her work, she stumbles upon the wrong doings on the part of the head of the medicine purchase cell who incapacitates her and converts her into a living vegetable when she threatens to blow the lid off the unethical, covert practice.
She'd, by then, acquired a lot many admirers from among the patients, their attendants and the members of the hospital staff and they decide to put her in 'Room number 6' where she was privy to special attention and a liberal dose of 'Rabindra sangeet' - her vegetative state, notwithstanding (Reminded me about the recently deceased nurse Aruna Shanbaug of the Bombay Hospital). Stories abound among the inmates of the hospital about Sandhya - always on vigilant rounds - to ensure that nothing went wrong in the hospital!
My take.
I've touched upon this aspect earlier too but in a different context. The 'out-of-the-body' phenomenon is something that all of us would have experienced, many a time, in the course of our lives. Let me try to explain....
One is deep in thought about a past event or an individual and before one realises, the mind(or is it the soul?) gets tranferred to those circumstances and after a brief stay out there, returns to the body as though nothing had happened! The apprehension I'd shared in my earlier story was that the mind always returned to its own body and I'd wondered at the unlikely possibility of the minds switching bodies on return and the resulting confusion/catastrophe that it would create!
Adieu Omar Sharif.
Another of my favourite actors has passed into the mist of time. He was 83 and was suffering from the dreaded Alzheimer's illness. I remember my first movie of his, Dr. Zhivago, where he'd acted in the title role so effortlessly and having developed a liking for his way of acting saw, 'Lawrence of Arabia' in which he'd acted as Sherif Ali - at first sceptical and goes on to become a loyal friend of Lawrence, played by Peter O'Toole. I've also seen him in Jenghiz Khan, The Yellow Rolls Royce, The Night of the Generals, Funny Girl, The Appointment and Mackenna's gold - in fact, have seen them an umpteen number of times!
An Egyptian by birth, he'd married his co-star, Faten Hamama, in '55 and divorced her in '74 (Incidentally, she had died earlier, in January, this year at the age of 83!). Their son, Tarek, acted as the young 'Yuri Zhivago' in Dr. Zhivago when he was nine years old.
RIP, Omar Sharif! My salute to a fine actor!!
Tailpiece.
Another one of those hectic days and I was able to catch up with a whole lot of work that had piled up!
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