A prejudice overcome
Does education make us better? It makes us cerebral beings, analytical beings but does it make us ethical? With all the knowledge it imparts to the otherwise peurile intellects, does it make us good people? Well, this is a story about a prejudice. The beginning of this episode goes back to 9 months from the time of writing. My wife was expecting our second child. Our first one is a daughter who is 3 years old now. She is the best gift I have received in my life. She was such a bundle of joy that my friends literally wrapped her in satin ribbon and presented to me in the maternity ward. As the excitement of our daughter caught hold of us and shaped our entire lives, some in our circles were not happy for having settled for the second best. Now, my daughter is not diseased or ugly or retarded to feel so. Only that she is a daughter. I am a post graduate doctor and my wife also is equally qualified. Both our families have received western education and have taken up res