Most of us have our ideologies firmly rooted in the binaries of faith and reason. But real life is never quite that black-and-white. When things in life don’t make sense, we tend to hold on to beliefs ...

Abraham Verghese works on a grand scale. At over seven hundred pages, The Covenant of Water deserves the word epic ... When the central character, Mariamma, who marries into the family, first learns ...

So opens chapter 60 of Abraham Verghese ... which the main character practices first at home and later in New York. The practice of medicine, especially surgery for catastrophic injury, is also ...

Physician and author Abraham Verghese often says ... In his fourth and latest work, The Covenant of Water, published last year, Verghese narrates an epic story spanning three generations in ...