Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESESandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEYou are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
ABRAHAM VERGHESEMake something beautiful of your life.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWe come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe only way to know where you are is by where you have just been.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEAnother day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEWhat we are fighting isn’t godlessness–this is the most godly country on earth.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEI joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA beautiful literary collection that tells of today’s country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone by, but still fulfilling an essential need in caring for spread-out populations.
ABRAHAM VERGHESERituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThis is my life, I thought…I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil
ABRAHAM VERGHESEIn an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEThe 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.
ABRAHAM VERGHESEA discourse that begins at a book club in a living room, but then spreads. That is meaningful to me.
ABRAHAM VERGHESE