458 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
medicine. The doctor would not condescend to examine her, simply looked at her from a distance. Of course I gave Rs. 2 for his fee. It is a serious illness. Everything is in His hands !
The light in my life has gone out. She passed away at
2 O’clock this afternoon.
II
Comment is needless. What shall one say about the inhumanity of the doctor who being an educated man refused to apply the thermometer except through the medium of a Musalman to purify it, and who treated an ailing woman lying in for two days worse than a dog or a cat ? What shall one say of the society that tolerates this inhumanity ? One can but reflect and weep.
A. V. Thakkar,
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Young India, dated 5th May 1927.