Idid not realise that when I said, “Don’t come back here,” to Stan while seeing him off at the gate of the jail hospital, it would prove ominous.

It was May 28, 2021, and Arun Ferreira and I drove him in a wheelchair to the gate of the jail hospital, extremely happy over the Bombay High Court order to shift him to the Holy Family Hospital, albeit for only 15 days. I was quite hopeful that his bail petition, which was being heard, would also be granted during his hospital stay and so he may not be back, quite like VV Stan tested positive for COVID-19, and two days later he was moved to the intensive care unit. Though he was also being treated for heart-related ailments, the newspapers reported that he was responding very well. The court monitored his health closely and extended his stay ti

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