Good eye’s donation by Pataudi

Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi ruled over world cricket with one good eye. He is no more but the eye will continue to live, because the legendary cricketer had decided to donate it. His left eye having been retrieved within hours after his death on September 22, 2011 – with the family’s consent – was preserved in Sir Ganga Ram Hospital’s eye bank. Pataudi’s right eye was damaged permanently in a car accident when he was 20 years old. The 70-year-old cricketer (husband of actor Sharmila Tagore and father of actor Saif Ali Khan) was diagnosed with a debilitating lung infection a few months ago

Dr. Narendra Kumar
Editor, Optometry Today

On hardships

Leaving aside the issue of the non-introduction of Government legislation to regulate the practice of optometry even after its introduction in the country way back in the year 1958, let me this time focus on the miseries of the average citizen.

Land-line phone going dead or disturbance creeping in, daily newspaper full of crime stories, market flooding with counterfeit currency notes, blatant encroachment on public land, menace of unauthorized weekly markets, rising inflation, and above all frequent electric load-shedding…all play the nerve-racking game like the childish bickering of our legislators in the parliament, forgetting, and not caring, about the basic issues to provide some relief to the common man in terms of food, clothing and dwelling. Yes, God is surely there; otherwise how could life go on in the face of such hardships?

Dr. Narendra Kumar