My
brother Dr. N. Lakshminarsu passed away on Thursday evening, 11th August 2011,
at Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad, as the entire family waited by
his side for 13 days with great hope and prayers for his recovery.
Unfortunately, destiny did not want to grant us our wishes, leaving us in
immense grief and sorrow. Not just the family, friends, relatives and the
community, but the multitudes of patients he has treated over the past 38 years
and have heard of his passing away are grieved by his demise. His good nature
and kindness permeated everything he did and everyone he knew.
On
30th July after attending to patients in the Clinic he walked into the house at
about 12 Noon for a brief break. He talked to a few members of the family and
looked very normal but suddenly due to giddiness he fell down and regained
conscious within a few minutes. We immediately rushed him to the hospital for
checks and treatment. He was fully conscious at the time of admission but
thereafter complications arose and during 13 days of the treatment, he showed
signs of recovery but ultimately and sadly the end came.
My
brother is the eldest of three children of our parents, Sri. N. Bhaskarachary
and Smt. Eshwaramma. He was born on 18th September 1948 at Secunderabad. He
completed High School from Mahbub College, Secunderabad. He studied B.Sc. at
Nizam College, Hyderabad, and then studied B.D.S. – Bachelor of Dental Surgery,
at Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. He first set up his Dental Clinic at
Kothagudem in 1974 and in 1977 he joined the Singareni Collieries Area
Hospital, Godavari Khani, as Dental Surgeon. He finally set up his Dental
Clinic at our house – Srilekha, in Secunderabad, in 1980.
I
and my brother have been together all our life. As my father was employed at
Kothagudem, a small Coal mining town where the standard of higher education
seemed inadequate and as we have our own house at Secunderabad, I and my
brother studied together at Secunderabad from middle school onwards. And when
my brother was studying B.D.S. at K.M.C. Manipal, my father sent me to Manipal
Institute of Technology to study B.E. Electrical Engineering there, so that I
would not feel homesick, with my brother next door to me. Then, I and my
brother worked together at Singareni Collieries for few years, he as a Doctor
and me as an Engineer, residing in the same Company bungalow. We mutually
decided and returned to Secunderabad in 1980-1981 to our ancestral house and
continued to live together. My brother established his Clinic – Vijaya Dental
Clinic and I joined Praga Tools Limited, A Govt. of India Company.
My
brother is married in 1973 to Smt. Vijayalaxmi, daughter of Sri. Dubbaka
Yadagiri Achary and Smt. Sakku Bai. They have two sons Dr. Sudheer and Dr.
Udaya Bhaskar; both are Post Graduates from the prestigious All India Institute
of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. Dr. Sudheer is an Oro-Maxillo-Facial
Prosthodontist and Implantologist and Dr. Udaya Bhaskar is an Endodontist and
Conservative Dentist. My brother’s both daughters-in-law are also Dental
Surgeons, Dr. Lavanya Sudheer is a Cosmetic Dental Surgeon and Dr. Hina Udaya
Bhaskar is a Periodontist. Dr. Sudheer and Dr. Lavanya have a daughter, Ch.
Sudhiksha who is 6 years old. The love and affection between my brother and
granddaughter is beyond my description.
As
I recollect many fond memories of my brother my heart becomes heavy with
sadness. I have written of several good times with my brother in this blog on
various occasions. There are many more which come to my mind and they only add
to my sadness.
My
brother will always remain in the hearts of our family members and friends, and
thousands of others who have come to him in pain and returned home happily. May
his soul rest in peace.
Here
is an article I wrote on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of my brother’s
Clinic:
