25 Minutes

On February 20th 2001, I met a girl lying on the stretcher as I was on another, about to go for my second heart surgery in the Manipal Heart Foundation, Bengaluru. We just smiled, looking at each other, realising we both were going for the same procedure. Using this little fact of my life, I construed an utterly fictional story for my readers to wonder about and be inspired. Its a story about two heart patients having feelings and emotions like all others around them.