NETAJIEYEHOSPITAL

"Annada, can't you do anything for these unfortunate people?" - implored Netaji to Annada Prasad Chakrabortty (the pre-Sannyas name of Swami Asimananda Saraswati), tears rolling down his cheeks, as he picked up and embraced a poor old blind person who, in deep darkness of the night, had fallen down on the street in front of their car. The year was 1938. Amidst the ongoing freedom struggle against the imposing British Rule, Netaji accompanied by Annada Prasad was moving towards Adra Railways station to get into a Train for Calcutta after attending a number of political meetings in the then Manbhum District (Purulia) of West Bengal. And that was the sowing of seed in the compassionate heart of Annada Prasad (Swami Asimananda Saraswati in subsequent life), which germinated in 1953 with the organising of a winter Cataract Eye Operation Camp for 15 days with the help of the then Bihar Govt. and Patna Medical College when Swamiji was a seating M.L.A. of Bihar Assembly. Subsequently, he..