‘He walked 200 miles to be operated by me’
In an undistinguishable Spartan office in the vast citadel of eye care, outside whose gates share autos are constantly dropping off elderly couples headed to the kannu aspathri (eye hospital), and whose stone parapets and steel chairs continue to bear the gratitude of several patients, sits the 72-year old founder and chairman emeritus of Sankara Nethralaya, S.S. Badrinath, hardy in frame and agile in thought.