Mutton Fry
The place was Ranchi, the year 1982 and the location, the Military Hospital at Namkum. As a person who prided in never having reported sick right through my days at the Officers' Training School and up till '82, that is a total of 14 years in uniform, I landed up in the MH for the first time almost dead or at least worrying the medical fraternity enormously so, all because of a reaction created by a Novalgin tablet. But that is another story and not the one captioned here. However, after that admission and walking back in one piece, I was admitted a couple more times breaking my future record of non-admissions too. For never had I to be admitted again till just one year before my retirement. The second admission in Ranchi was due to acute pharyngitis and the third was due to a severe backache, both in quick succession to the reaction one. My constitution seemed to have undergone some quick amendments after the drug reaction. Mutton fry in full blast happened d