This is to inform all admirers of the versatile genius Muktiprakash Roy that he has recently (14 July, 2008) accomplished an almost Humayunish feat by falling from stairs and experienced a fragmentation of right patella. The fall, which could have been a tragic one, was, still, due to hamartia, i.e. he had slippers on, which, as their name suggests, have a propensity to slip. Thus, his slippers slipped on the stairs, made slippery all the more by the rainwater running down them. Perhaps there was hubris as well, since the almost-tragic hero had thought conceitedly that he could tackle such a hostile consolidation of fatal forces against him. So, having undergone an operation on 15 July, he now rests at his own Dwaipayan, like Duryodhan, with a postmodern smile of defiance on his chubby face.
