Summary:
“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. 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. 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. But acute poverty and lack of formal education could not stop him from taking a step that many ‘well-educated’ people avoid..