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...workers in his unit similarly burned out. Doctors cite high levels of substance addiction and relationship breakdowns among IT workers. "If you look at the stress levels in that environment and the hours they keep, you begin to see why these things happen," says Dr. Achal Bhagat, a psychiatrist at New Delhi's Apollo Hospital...
Second Lieutenant Premindra Singh Bhagat, 22, of the Royal Bombay Sappers, was told, one day during the British conquest of Ethiopia, to clear a road of Italian mines. The Italians had sown the dangerous metallic seeds as prodigally as some hardy grain. In one stretch of four miles Lieut. Bhagat dug up 14 separate mine fields each containing 300 mines spread over 250 yards on each side of the road...
After the first 48 hours of this risky work, Lieut. Bhagat's commander wanted to relieve him. "He had had not a wink of sleep since the job started," the commander said. "His eyes were popping from his head. He had difficulty in speaking." But Lieut. Bhagat refused to be relieved, because "I have learned the Italians' system in laying mines and any relieving officer would have to learn it all over again...
...Lieut. Bhagat continued gambling with death for 96 hours without halt. He was ambushed once, blown up once, had his eardrum split. The commander called Premindra Singh Bhagat's labor "the longest continued feat I have ever seen of sheer cold courage...
...killed Bhagat Singh? Gandhi...