When the point is of disease, damage, or infection of the brain, and of the surgery to correct them, we are already wading into difficult waters! The brain is the command center and the central processing unit of the human body. It is a heavily wired zone. Sitting inside the skull, the brain resembles a snake poised in a tight, knotty coil. Imagine having to wedge between the coils with a blade to cut and remove a boil on the underside! Such being the case, a call for surgery indicates that either it is the best of the hard choices available or it is the only choice left. Even two decades ago, the hint of brain surgery would have sounded like a death warrant to a lot of people. Not anymore! Dr. Hrishikesh Chakrabartty says the point of surgery today has changed. It is no longer just about reclaiming life. It is also about restoring the quality of life. “That is how far technology and medical expertise have got us.”