Sum of her parts: Why are the vast majority of Indian organ donors women? – The Hindu
Sum of her parts: Why are the vast majority of Indian organ donors women? The Hindu
The year his daughter Sheena turned 18 was the longest year of Ramendra Nath Singh’s life. Although she had offered without being asked, Singh felt a strange weight descend, as if a balloon had lodged itself in his chest clamping his breath and shrinking his appetite. She was a child after all, in the first year of engineering studies. When he took her to the hospital for the tests, she was detected with jaundice; the doctors would not touch her until she recovered fully. How long would it be? Singh felt guilty counting days like this. He had always said no to Sheena. But the day he vomited…