“It took more than 10 hours to reattach the entire face and scalp,” said Thomas. As soon as he sewed the first artery the reattached face turned scarlet with blood. It was an arduous job, because he had to reconnect numerous nerves and blood vessels. So he decided to put back Sandeep’s own detached face and scalp from the plastic bag.
As an experienced microsurgeon he was well aware how such skin grafts are readily rejected by the reciepient’s immune system. Thomas knew that any effort to repair Sandeep’s face with skin grafts harvested from elsewhere on her body would backfire. “Initially I didn’t think I could do anything.” “It was an utterly frightening sight to see that blood-drenched face,” recalled Thomas, now the principal, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences, while talking to KnowHOW. As luck would have it, the plastic surgeon, Dr Abraham George Thomas, was on duty. The distressed family packed the detached face in a plastic bag and rushed the unconscious girl to the hospital, 150 kilometres away from their village, Chak Khurd. The grass-cutter kept on dragging in until the skin above her neck tore, and her scalp got ripped off. The hapless girl’s face was amputated when her braids got caught in a threshing machine while her mother was chopping grass to feed the family buffaloes. The face and scalp (see picture below) of Sandeep Kaur, a nine-year-old girl in a village near Ludhiana, arrived at the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, in two pieces. The world’s first full-face replant surgery was unwittingly accomplished by a plastic surgeon in India, 11 years ago. Listen to our latest episode to discover the tragic story of how a whole family was targeted to satisfy one man's greed.Landmark case: (From top) Dr Abraham Thomas, Sandeep Kaur after operation and her detached scalp and face It's a long 'un but an intense one! So get your beers or your Aam Pannas and join us on this episode!Ī beautiful actress' entire family simply disappears one day from their plush Mumbai home.
We also have a tiny but important update in the Madanapalle Double Murder Case. In this special Khooniversary Early Release Episode we talk about a love story which was doomed from before it began, a night that changed the course of a village's life, a boy born in a prison and a woman who might be the first woman to be hanged in Independent India. You can support us by buying our Merch at : Thank You HarperCollins India for giving us a chance to feature this brilliant True Crime Book in Khooni!
Plus for we discuss an insurance scam gone awry in Kerala. Sneha and Aditi talk about Dead Men Tell Tales and its brilliant author. We take a look at four assassinations in Karnataka and Maharashtra connected by a common thread. Shadow Armies by Dhirendra K Jha (Amazon link: ) In the conclusion to out episode last week, we talk about how the assassinations of Narendra Dabholkar, Govind Pansare, MM Kalburgi and Gauri Lankesh were connected deeply, how this was probably part of a sinister conspiracy to eliminate dissenters to the right wing agenda and finally, the shady organisation behind it all.ġ. Mafia Queens of Mumbai : Stories of Woman from the Ganglands by Jane Borges and Hussain Zaidi
The tragic but very fascinating tale of Ashraf who chose to be called Sapna.ġ. Grab your beverage, fasten your seat belts or get ready to do what you always do when you listen to Khooni and sit down to listen to a tragic tale of love, loss, and revenge.
This is a fascinating tale of a woman who swore to get revenge on one of the biggest, if not the biggest, Dons India has known. Report of the Sri Krishna Commission available at chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/viewer.html?pdfurl=http%3A%2F%2F4. Report of the Liberhan Ayodhya Commissionģ. We continue the tale of the Mumbai Mafia, and talk about three interconnected, ghastly events between December 1992 and March 1993, spanning the length of the country, which changed the communal dynamic of India forever.Ģ.