"How dare you disobey me , miserable girl !!", the sound resounded in the psychiatric ward of the medical facility ,"I am the mayor of the city , always remember that ," he said as he pounced to hit the girl in the ward and had to be overpowered to stop his violent behaviour .Dr Lata had seen many such episodes of maniacal violence in her ten and a half years career as the incharge of the psychiatric ward of Qualcare Hospital ;and had seen cases going from bad to worst as patients didn't respond to the best treatments offered and the kin of the patients leaving them and never enquiring about their well being , improvement or recovery .The patients were also lost in their own world of delusions without any need of their kith or kin .
He was silent as usual ,an unusual silence that sometimes gave her kind of eerie chill ,in midst of chaos of the mentally ill minds .He had just once uttered one word Gopi ,the name which everyone knew him by, and after that no word anyone heard from him .He seemed to watch everything yet so distant from everything ,ate little and often seemed like he was mentally in some other world oblivious to all happenings around him .Lata often tried to get him to speak and share something about...