Normalcy

Had it not been for Maya, I would have never seen that patient. Entering the OPD that fine Thursday morning, he wasn’t a hard one to spot. Amongst the crowd of some forty people in that room, he was the only one with the description she had given me. I looked for his file amongst the bunch of dozen others lying on the table and called out his name. As per my guess, the same man, well dressed and seemingly coming from an educated background, somewhere in his mid-twenties raised his hand, somewhat sluggishly, hinting signs of disinterest in the proceedings going on in that room. Well, let me describe the room for you. Located in the center of the premises of a leading Psychiatric center in New Delhi, this room witnessed some fifty odd lives being transformed every day. The walls in this room have heard the strangest of tales and weirdest of experiences undergone by men and women struggling to combat various mental disorders they deal with, and still, those walls kept those ta...