ConflictRahul sat by the window of his room studying for the first Physiology test of the semester. It was on Blood Groups and this topic was explained most thoroughly in Samson Wright, the professor had said. Rahul hadn’t thought it necessary to buy the book just for the sake of one chapter. So he had got the relevant pages photocopied from the book of a classmate who had bought it cheap at one of the pavement booksellers’ that dotted the lanes around the medical college. Rahul often thought a second-hand book was, in a way, more interesting than a brand new copy, as it bore the imprint of the personality of the previous owner. You could tell a lot about the person from the under-linings and the notes scribbled in the margins.
Studying for the test was easy enough for Rahul, as he alread
