TALE OF MORTAR, MURPHY & SCALPEL
A Surgeon’s Chronicle of Chaos, Concrete, and Becoming
“This was supposed to be simple: build a hospital, save some lives. Then Murphy showed up with a measuring tape.”
In this satirical chronicle of order meeting entropy, an unnamed surgeon sets out to build a hospital — and ends up reconstructing himself. What begins as a straightforward project soon
becomes a labyrinth of missing labourers, architect egos, shifting deadlines, and government approvals that rewrite themselves overnight.
Armed not with a scalpel but spreadsheets, he battles time, ducting, and despair — only to discover that healing takes many forms. Beneath the dust and deadlines lie quiet teachers: the
labourer who never complains, the guard who never leaves his post, the chaos that humbles ambition.
Told with dry humour and disarming honesty, Tale of Mortar, Murphy & Scalpel is both a comedy of errors and a meditation on purpose — a story for anyone who has ever tried to build
something meaningful in a world that resists meaning itself.
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Dr. Aashay Kekatpure MBBS, DNB
Dr Aashay Kekatpure is a Sports injury Specialist with extensive experience in Shoulder, knee and elbow surgery for 15 years. He prefers silence over slogans, chai over champagne, and good work over loud words.
This isn’t his introduction.
Just the footnote to a life lived curiously.
