The next morning, after breakfast Nazia and Ria headed straight to the dissection hall. Doctor Vijaykanth showed the method of dissection for the first time after asking everyone questions. Few of them managed to answer correctly and many didn't. Nazia and Ria both gave the perfect answers."You all have touched and felt those three landmarks yesterday. These three are important for the dissection on the back. Now we have to take the scalpel and make a midline incision up to the level of iliac crest up to the occipital bone." he said as he began to use the scalpel.All the students around the stretcher began to push hard to get a better view. Some like Nazia who were short stood on a stool to see everything. Those who were tall had no problems at all. "Now we have to make horizontal incisions to this midline incision."Ria who was the nearest couldn't breathe properly because of the people pushing behind her. Her chest was almost attached to the cor

Life at Lakshmi Narayan Medical College was very different for Ria. Unlike before she never had to live in a hostel before and she never had to eat a soft diet for such a long time. She felt like her taste buds have already died. The campus wasn't as clean as compared to her schools in America either and she was occasionally greeted by rats in her hostel room or washroom.The anatomy dissection which she was supposed to do for the hand did not go well at all. Despite precaution from her, she ended up cutting many nerves by mistake. Professor Vijaykanth scolded Ria and her partner for their mistakes."How will you do any surgery? You cannot cut nerves and tendons. It is good that this is a dead body and such a mistake while dissection is fine now but you both will do it tomorrow as well on the upper limb. I will make you both do it again until you are perfect." said Doctor Vijaykanth.Nazia on the other hand did her work pe

Ria and Nancy returned exactly an hour later with a huge smile on their face. It wasn't a happy smile but Nazia felt that they had done something which was not good. She wanted to win the elections but not by using the wrong path and she wondered what her friends were up to. She knew that Ria and Nancy were very bold but their boldness often got them in trouble. Ria did not believe in compromising any situation. She would often go too far to show someone that they were wrong. Although she did not like it yet she could never stop her from it."What is with that smile on your face?" asked Nazia, concerned."Yes, that smile looks creepy," said Anusha."Oh, girls! Please relax and enjoy the show," said Nancy, as she and Ria sat down on their bench."Nancy, if you did something wrong then be ready to get scolded at home. I will call your mother and tell you everything," said Anusha."Anusha dear, there is no foul play here. Just a reaction to an action

Ria played the video that she had recorded earlier when she went downstairs. The video showed Vinodna's friends talking about Manisha removing a few of Nazia's votes to make Vinodna win. This shocked everyone in the classroom. Nazia looked furiously at Manisha, who kept sneezing again and again because of her allergy."Manisha, how could you even think of abusing your position to make someone win?" asked Doctor Shruti loudly, after watching the video completely."Aahchoo!" said Manisha."Shruti Mam, I am sorry," said Vinodna.She kept her head down and Ria could see that she was completely embarrassed now. Ria did not feel any sympathy for her. Instead, it made her angrier. She had tried to win unfairly.

Ria never knew that someday she would have to experiment on her own blood in a college. Her parents had never told that to her anytime and she felt that she wasn't ready for it. The professor in front was strangely looking at her again and again. This made Ria fear that she might observe her while she would be doing the same experiment later. It made her so nervous that suddenly her hands and feet went sweaty. Back in school, Ria and her friends had made a plan for the dissection of the cockroach. Only Leela was not afraid of cockroaches while the others could not even touch them before dissection. Their parents were tiger parents, very determined for them to do and therefore they could not opt-out of the dissection class. So Ria and her friends decided to use Leela's cockroach for the dissection. The idea was to pretend as though you were working on it. Once Leela finished, she wo