Page to Stage - Bheja Fry by Dr. Mazda Turel

A Dramatised Reading and Discussion

Bheja Fry is not a medical book. It is a book about what medicine reveals—about the brain, about human beings and about the peculiar privilege of being the person people trust with their heads.

Drawn from two decades of practice, this is a collection of stories from the operating theatre and the consulting room—stories about patients who tattoo gods onto their arms in gratitude, about the strange calm that descends before a difficult surgery, about the moments medicine cannot explain and the moments it explains all too well. Dr. Mazda Turel writes about the brain the way a great food writer writes about a meal: with precision, pleasure and the firm conviction that understanding it changes everything.

There has never been more public fascination with the brain—from mental health conversations to AI, from mindfulness to neurodiversity. And yet most writing about the brain is either textbook-dry or pop-science thin. Bheja Fry occupies a rare middle space. It is written by someone who has operated on thousands of brains, who has watched people lose and recover language, movement, memory and self—and who has the literary gift to make all of that vivid, moving and often very funny.

Dr. Turel is an acclaimed neurosurgeon, columnist, adventure enthusiast and one of the most compellingly readable medical voices in India today. Bheja Fry is his debut book.

Excerpts read by Anahita Uberoi, Rajit Kapur & Shernaz Patel

Moderated by Arghya Lahiri

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