Books and reading can change your life, said Abraham Verghese, eminent physician and author, most recently, of ‘The Covenant ...

In a powerful message to the young in the audience exhorting them to read, Dr. Verghese said, “There is no way you can ...

KOCHI: It was a covenant — sealed with water — between the narrative and the reader that had to be kept. And, when a group of ...

Abraham Verghese, Soumya Swaminathan, Anirudh Kanisetti, Aruna Roy, Shashi Tharoor and other voices will exchange ideas on ...

Verghese talks about how books initially lead him to medicine and how medicine lead him back to writing books. We come to understand how these two vocations are connected and deepen the other in ...

Last year’s book list included “The Covenant of Water” by Abraham Verghese, “The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory,” by Tim Alberta and “The Vaster Wilds” by Lauren Groff.