Dr. Govinda KC: an obdurate dissident or a revolutionary hero?
With Dr. Govinda KC’s hunger strike reached the sixteenth day today, vexation is mounting all over the country. Resident doctors have warned to call it quits by Friday if the government did not listen to KC’s demand; social media is flooded with the sharp debate and opinion of his admirers and detractors. Some see him as an obdurate dissident who tries to trample on the laws and the norms of a governmental institution; many others hail him as a revolutionary hero, an anti-corruption meliorist, a staunch defender of The National Medical Education Bill. For the first time, I saw Dr. KC in the Dishanirdhesh show hosted by Vijay Kumar several years ago. Dressed in incongruous white shirt and pant, taciturn by nature, I portrayed him as a reticent orthopedic surgeon who lives a nonconformist lifestyle and shows diffidence on many aspects of life; but on the central question of the reformation in the health sector, he was very adamant. By the time, no one had thought that this thin, b...