The book, Rocky My Silent Mentor, is an expression of gratitude; gratitude to Rocky, a human cadaver on whose lifeless body the author practiced anatomy dissection as a young medical student. The narrative takes you through the four phases in the life of the protagonist-learner, a surgeon in training, a surgical teacher and finally a retired doyen. The author weaves a beautiful tapestry from his experience of treating several patients spread over his entire surgical career. The climax takes the readers through a mind-boggling surreal voyage to reveal why Rocky was his great head teacher, Magnus Magister. The book is also a compelling narrative of several vignettes of medical history and would convince the readers that rather than decaying in the graves to feed numerous worms or being burned to ashes in a funeral pyre, one can still be of service to science and humanity even after one's death. Death and dying could
