Dr K.P. Nutterji MB (Bombay), BCh (Edinburgh), FRCPsych

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 Born in Mumbai in 1958 to a family of civil servants and amateur philosophers, Krishnaprem Nutterji grew up amidst monsoon logic and bureaucratic mysticism.
Educated at Grant Medical College, he achieved early distinction by diagnosing his professors with chronic optimism.
Postgraduate studies took him to Edinburgh, where he discovered whisky, weather, and Wittgenstein — all of which he now prescribes liberally.
He holds Membership of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Fellowship in the All Nations Atheist League (InANAL), whose meetings, he insists, are “miracles of non-attendance.”

A practising psychiatrist of high repute and low patience for jargon, Dr Nutterji maintains a discreet consultancy in Dublin and a part-time research fellowship with the Imperial Irish Academy’s Department of Dubious Sciences.
His special interest lies in applied sanity — the attempt to remain rational while living among poets, priests, and politicians.
He lectures occasionally on Cognitive Dissonance in Rural Societies and Alcohol as an Existential Strategy.

Giles and the Doctor met following a pheasant shoot in the early 2000s when both misdiagnosed a dead bird as metaphor.
Since then, Dr Nutterji has served as Giles’s unofficial confessor, consultant, and cricketing partner — a trinity of endurance.
While Giles claims to understand psychology “scientifically,” he defers to the Doctor on all matters requiring compassion or leg-glances.
Their friendship is cemented by mutual admiration for fine malts — especially Bushmills 21 YO and the rarer Midleton releases, about which they converse with more theological conviction than either displays in church.

• Cricket: Bowls slow left-arm irony, bats with stoic despair.
   
• Fly-fishing: Practices catch-and-release therapy on trout and politicians alike.
   
• Whisky Appreciation: Co-founder of the Bushmills-Midleton Dialogues, an ongoing symposium of intoxicated philosophy.
   
• Philosophy: Claims that psychiatry is “just theology with a prescription pad.”

• The Psychopathology of the Poetic Mind (Imperial Irish Academy Occasional Paper No. 9)
   
• Cognitive Distortions in the Irish Weather (Journal of Dubious Sciences, 2017)
   
• Bushmills, Midleton, and the Ego: A Comparative Study (unpublished but oft-recited).
   

“There is no cure for the human condition — only maintenance, conversation, and a decent single malt.”

 Once described by the Connacht Tribune as “the only man in Ireland who can explain both Jung and the LBW rule without notes.”