Dreamt Lives Anirudh Deshpande III The Gentleman The last few days had sapped Ravi’s energy and increased his anxiety. He wondered what he would do with his father’s illness.The prolonged illness had exhausted him but he could not fall sleep. He had taken his father four times to the hospital in the last one month. The doctors with bored expressions had revived him with copious doses of oxygen and saline.They sent him back home after this.In the meantime the Patriarch cursed the hospital staff in words which would have embarrassed a Punjabi sergeant-major. “I will fuck you” he shouted at