Histories
- Writers Pouch
- Jul 15, 2014
- 2 min read
It was that time when the headlines screamed of feticide of the female child in Beed district of Maharashtra and during such turbulent times when girls were brutally murdered in their mother’s uterus, we were sitting around in the department and talking about the prejudices, discrimination and ignorance of the rural and illiterate folk. In comes Savitribai, the patient allotted to us for history taking.
She looked just like the rest of them, those ignorant fools we were just cursing for killing unborn girls. She was old, withered, in pain and thus started with her long spiel of complaints. By the time we reached the family history, we were pretty sure what her diagnosis might be and we were just going through the motions. She told us that she had 4 children, three daughters and one son.
