Quote by: Abraham Verghese

Hema thought of Shiva, her personal deity, and how the only sensible response to the madness of life . . . was to cultivate a kind of madness within, to perform the mad dance of Shiva, . . . to rock and sway and flap six arms and six legs to an inner tune. Hema moved gently . . . she danced as if her minimalist gestures were shorthand for a much larger, fuller, reckless dance, one that held the whole world together, kept it from extinction.


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Author Bio


  • NameAbraham Verghese
  • DescriptionPhysician, teacher, novelist
  • Born1955
  • CountryUnited States Of America; India
  • ProfessionWriter
  • WorksCutting For Stone
  • AwardsLambda Literary Award