[silence] The Grand/petite narrative of Bharat , Part-I

[Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay]

Silence fiction 
The Meta/petite narrative of Bharat 
(Summarized version of a Bangla pseudo-novel, published in Kalodhvani, 13:1, October, 2005) 

Canto-I: Investigation into the docile body of Bharat 

What happens to you Bharat? Why‘re you not speaking?
Pancajani was feeling the heat of nuclear-radiation, when the SPET  was going on, an isotope was localized in the left side of Bharat’s brain by inserting a catheter to his vein to find out the causes behind the dumbness of Bharat. 
Bharat was not speaking
several expensive diagnostic procedures were executed. When Bharat initially stopped speaking, Pancajani took him to an ENT-specialist. It was diagnosed as Aphonia. However, the test, “Laryngoscopy” failed to detect the actual cause behind Bharat’s non-speaking. Therefore, ENT-specialist referred him to a Neurologist. 
The physisian stroke throgh the earlier diagnosis and suggested a possibility for Spasmodic Disphonia or, he thought, it might be a case of  Global Aphasia. There might be something unusual in Bharat’s left hemisphere, especially in the Broca’s Area: a supposed zone in the frontal lobe, which is responsible for our speaking.  The neurologist suggested a series of tests: Cerebral angiography, Electroencephalogram (EEG), CT scan of the head, MRI of the head, skull X-ray etc.. Nothing was “abnormal”, but, in the meantime,  Bharat’s body was ruptured, scrtched, blooded
 
His conjecture was then that it was a case of Cerebral Motor Aphasia. He put an acronym under his diagnosis: AUO (Aphasia of unknown origin). Health Care Provider was searching for origin—causes and effect, effect and cause, cause and effect.  
He  initially prescribed a medicine: Pentoxyphylin, afterwards it was supplemented by Amphetamine—the remedies for non-speaking! Though, to the doctor, the etiology of Bharat’s non-speaking was still unknown. 
After PET, now it is a time for Single Photon Emmission Tomography (SPECT).  That test discovered  a peculiar phenomenon: qutie contrary to the determination of earlier diagnosis, though there was an “intense neural activity” in the frontal lobe of Bharat’s brain, the parital lobe was totally inactive. 
What would be the next step for Pancajani for curing his husband, Bharat? The limit of  Medical insurance was exhausted; the expensive tests  penetrated the docile body of Bharat. Bharat, from now on, like Ullysis, could not return to his initial phase, thanks to the violent medical tests. 
Pancajani was feeling the suffocating warmth of nuclear bombs at  the moment of  medical nuclear tests on the blooded body of Bharat. 
Bharat was then referred to a Neuro-psychiatrist.  He suggested a blood-test to judge the level of lithium and sodium  in Bharat’s blood though nothing was “abnormal” in his blood. His prescribed medicines were: Amitryptilin and Alprazolam SR. 
Despite such tests and regular intakes of different experimental medicines, Bharat did not return to the non-silent zone of speaking! Bharat is now suffering from DOMP. What is that? 
(to be continued
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