Doctor
As a child, Ramakrishnan Gupta always wanted to be a doctor. He was the top student in the village and his parents were very proud of him. Everyone expected lot from him. He was like the village trophy. His father was poor but was always supportive of Ramu going to college to fulfill his dream to become a doctor. His mother had died during child birth.
Before Ramu could go to college, his father died because of TB and Ramu was left alone. Everyone in the village was very sorry for his unfortunate loss and treated him with sympathy. He decided that this was not going to stop him. He went to the big city and got an admission in a medical college where he performed badly and couldn’t cope up. The village education hadn’t been enough to start with.
He was expelled after two years of college after getting warnings to improve his grades but he just couldn’t. He had nothing to do, nowhere to go. He did odd jobs in the city earning enough cash to just scrape through his meals. In one of his jobs he met a person who made fake documents: licenses, school documents, certificates. an idea came to Ramakrishnan’s head. He got a false certificate made on his name that he had become a doctor. Then he went back to the village and started hid practice.
That was a long time ago, about 20 years. Now he was well settled, and a respected person in the village. Everyone in the village came to him for their problems and to add to their trust, he didn’t overcharge. And now his life was going to change completely. Now another youngster of the village who had actually gone to college, knew about Guptaji’s truth. And now he threatened to tell the elders…
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