Virtual Reality
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Virtual Reality *Dr. K L Chowdhury | |
| It was a beautiful summer day, our very first on our visit to our daughter in USA. No sooner I opened the front door in my impatience to saunter out for my first morning stroll than the deafening burglar alarm, like thunder in a cloudless sky, tore the morning peace apart, catching the household unawares. Grandma-to-be, nursing the jet lag of an overseas journey, trooped down and eyeing me rather sternly, blamed my naivete for shattering the tranquillity, and for having woken up everybody on this quiet spring Sunday morn. Dad-in-the-making awoke, disturbed and distraught, from a well-deserved draught of week-end sleep, looking at me inquiringly, searching frantically for the button on the control panel, to stop the screeching siren. Fearing we would be besieged shortly by beeping vans and the police party, and feeling so guilty for causing anguish all around , my arms rose up helplessly and words came to me so scarcely to say that I was sorry. But mom-in-expectancy, softly gliding out of her room, informed us reassuringly that she had phoned the security about the faux pas and there was no need to alarm, and we should take it easy. And then I thought I could distinctly hear my yet-to-be-born grandchild speaking to me affectionately, ‘Grandpa, pray feel not guilty for I am insulated fully, against all hoots and toots, inside my mom’s belly. Don’t you see, in this great country, it is technology that sets the calendar, that dictates the tone and tenor for everybody - even the gestational march from conception to delivery. Oh this virtual reality that has seized humanity!’ | |
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*Dr. K L Chowdhury retired as a Professor of Medicine, Medical College, Srinagar. Presently he is the Director of a charitable institution, Shriya Bhatt Mission Hospital and Research Center, Durga Nagar, Jammu. He is a physician and neurologist, a medical researcher, poet, social activist. He writes on diverse subjects – medical, literary, social and political and has numerous research papers to his credit, his pioneering work being “The Health Trauma in a Displaced Population” which was presented at national and international conferences. He was declared Shehjar's '
Kashmiri Person of the year
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