The Human Tragedy

The Human Tragedy Mr. Venkateswaran’s story is a rare, almost unique, one if you see it from the point of view of this world. But if you look at it from the point of view of the Hereafter, everyone is doing precisely the same thing as Mr. Venkateswaran did on that fateful day. Every person is, in the enthusiasm of intelligence and success, putting his foot on a spot that is going to drop him straight into the pit of the Hereafter. To speak in a disrespectful way to someone, to torment him, to take revenge against him, to oppress him or to mock him—all these are, as it were, putting your foot on the empty ‘eighth floor’. All such actions will take you straight down into the pit of devastation, and then no one can help you—no companion and no wishful thinking of any sort. Every person is putting his foot into the pit, although he imagines that he is actually stepping onto a safe platform. The Human Tragedy D r. Uttam Prakash (1928-1982) was a famous surgeon. He was the Head of the Department of Surgery of the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences. An international congress on surgery was to be held in Delhi in February 1982, which he was to preside over.