Rickshaw-man breaks social norm, donates mom’s eyes

Kolkata | Monday | 23rd July, 2018

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“He told me all those concerns were baseless and it would make us feel good when two persons would be able to see through my mother’s eyes. But I felt that she would be happy if someone could see through her eyes,” he said, adding, “I have asked my children to donate my eyes when I am gone. One of them said my mother will be born blind in her next life if her eyes were donated. Going against his community’s superstitious ideas, Barun Chakraborty decided to donate his mother’s eyes.Chakraborty’s mother Bela, a resident of Nalta, passed away on June 16. That encouraged Chakraborty to take the decision to donate her eyes..