In the Mahabharata, Ekalavya cut off his thumb when archery master Drona asked for it as guru dakshina (fees). Recently, St George hospital nicknamed a nine-month-old patient Ekalavya after they saw his left hand, which had seven-and-a-half fingers, but no thumb. But unlike the mythological Ekalavya, who had to live with four fingers, the doctors reconstructed a new thumb for the baby after removing the extra three-and-a-half fingers. What's more, they didn't even take any fees from the family.

The child's parents have withheld his name, but sources revealed that they are from Uttar Pradesh and came to Mumbai for a complicated plastic surgery to repair the baby's 'mirror hand'. The mirror hand deformity, also known as ulnar dimelia, is an extremely rare congenital anomaly of the upper limb, with only 100 such cases reported in literature across the world.