During my 27 years in Jamshedpur, working for Tata Steel, there were several occasions when Dr Pesi Bharucha (see "A first class surgeon,” pg 41) performed miracles at the Tata Main Hospital. He once saved my life.
When Jeroo and Ruki, our daughters were very small, some thugs broke into our house and shot me with a pipe gun in the room where the girls were sleeping! About 100 pellets were pumped into my body. Bharucha could remove most, but not all, the pellets the first time. A second attempt was made to remove the remaining. But by then flesh......