By Dr.K. Javeed Nayeem
As most of us perhaps know ‘A bridge too Far’ was the title of an epic war movie from the seventies about the Second World War, based on a book of the same name by Cornelius Ryan. The story revolves around a strategic bridge at Arnhem in the Netherlands which the Allies try to secure, before air-dropping their troops there, behind German lines. Since I had read the book, which I still have with me, I was very eager to see the movie when it was released in the year 1977. But when it came to Mysore I was myself far away at Gulbarga, preparing for my own personal battle of facing the second MBBS examination which to me was no less than the Second World War itself!
