As the power came back after an hour, the only television channel available to Indians those days stopped relaying the game. Ganeshan’s wife, in an advanced stage of pregnancy, went into labour. Ganeshan’s wife was diagnosed as having an inflammation of her gall bladder requiring emergency surgery. I paid a courtesy visit to the couple’s home and Ganeshan launched a tirade against the emergency medical care in the U.S. “In a medical emergency, you get only a nurse to attend to you. The delays could have killed my wife.”At this point, I did not have anything to defend and it was Ganeshan’s wife who responded softly: “Some men always manage to get something to grumble about.

Source: The Hindu July 01, 2017 13:07 UTC