India, April 6 -- Leo Tolstoy's merchant story, told by my class teacher, illustrates the very sad true story of a villager we are all reading in news today.

By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD

Over the past three days, we are all reading in the papers, a very sad and gut-wrenching story of how a miserably poor and completely innocent villager Suresh, was wrongly accused of murdering his wife and was forced to spend two years in jail, until thankfully, a benevolent lawyer came to his rescue, in the guise of the proverbial Good Samaritan and got him released on bail.

But despite this much deserved relief, the innocent man had to bear not only the hardship of two years of life as a prisoner but also bear the heavy cross of being labelled a shame...