Over the years, the Devdoongri family had seen many men in their forties and fifties return from the city, to die at home.
A few months later, he died quietly in his home beside the big tarred road. They knew that the ill-equipped and poorly-stocked public hospital would not offer much relief to Mot Singh. The doctors were not hopeful but offered various kinds of treatment that would keep Mot Singh at the government hospital in Beawer.