<b>Kishore Singh:</b> Whatever you do is nothing at all

The author is talking about a patient's life

The doctor was explicit with his instructions: “Stay at home, absolutely no reading or writing till I say so, no TV, and avoid the sun.” “Well, he didn’t say anything about rest,” my wife pointed out to me, when I wondered whether I should be putting away the family’s woollies under her coaxing. “If you’re going to lie about at home all day,” she insisted, “you might as well make yourself useful.” So, I packed away my wife’s silks and replaced them with chiffons and cottons. I segregated my son’s suits and coats that needed to go for dry-cleaning from