Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.
ABRAHAM VERGHESESandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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I’m a great believer in geography being destiny.
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Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret.
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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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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Empathy can be replaced by cynicism.
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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?”… “Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223″… “
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When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.
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