WHEN MY DOCTOR PRESCRIBES WHAT I CRAVE FOR
Pic.: Chirjiv Nagpal T here is a popular proverb in Kannada. It goes like this: “Rogi bayasiddu haalu… Vaidya heliddu haalu.” It means: The patient craved for milk… the doctor prescribed, too, milk. I would, often, hear it from my mom, when I was a small boy back in our village… Whenever I and my brothers would jump in joy on seeing some favorite dish prepared by her… She knew how her little-ones had craved for it… So, with a mischief in her eyes and a silent joy in her heart, she would dish out the folklore: “Rogi bayasiddu haalu… Vaidya heliddu haalu.” Another occasion on which we would hear it from mom was when we came back from school and jumped before her: “HEEEEEEEEEY! No school… Head Master died (Or a Trustee, a Minister or just a torrential rain!)” Mom knew how badly her little-boys hated to go to school that morning… how they wished someone important had died or some tragedy had struck our town! ...