We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESESandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life…
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Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.
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The key to your happiness is to own your slippers, own who you are, own how you look, own your family, own the talents you have, and own the ones you don’t.
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When I use the word ‘healing’, by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we’re very good at handling, but there’s always a sense of the violation. ‘Why me?’ ‘
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We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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The flip side of suicide is that it leaves a lingering question in the minds of the people who survived. Its like a cancer thats metastasized. The suicide is the cancer and the metastasis is all these people saying, Why? Why? Why?
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients.
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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There is that lovely feeling of one reader telling another, ‘You must read this.’
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.
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As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled.
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Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
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