Question

NCERT Ch 4 Bepin Choudhury's Lapse of Memory English

Why was Dr Chanda puzzled? What was unusual about Bepin Babu's loss of memory?

Answer 1

Dr Chanda was puzzled because he had never dealt with a case such as Bepin Babu’s. It was outside his field of experience.
The unusual thing about Bepin Babu’s case was that he remembered everything in his past except for one particular incident. Dr Chanda said that Bepin Babu must have been to Ranchi. However, due to some unknown reason, the entire episode had slipped out of his mind.

Answer 2

Dr. Chanda was not a psychiatrist, so Bepin’s case was out of his area of expertise. Chanda had never encountered such strange case of a perfectly normal person forgetting one important episode of his life.