Eugene baba....am I ...HOPEFULLY...the first... Ever full of Hope... Chacha...
> Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:51:31 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: [Goanet] To add to the debate on English- References to Siddharta > Mukherjee's Book Emperor Of All Maladies > > Eugene Correia <[email protected]> > writes: > > "There are new writers coming out of India. The impressive one, I am > told my a friend who is himself a writer and critic, is .Siddhartha > Mukherjee. I haven't read his Emperor of All Maladies." > > Comment: > > I suppose you could say that he is a writer coming out of India. Although he > came out when he was very young... > > Siddharta Mukherjee is an Indian American physician, Pulitzer Prize winning > author of the above mentioned book. > He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and staff > physician at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. > He attended St. Columba's School, Delhi India were he was born in 1970. > He went to Stanford University, won a a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford > University, > earned the MD at Harvard Medical School followed by an Oncology Fellowship at > Massachusetts General Hospital. > So he spent most of his formative years at top US Schools. > > About the book : Emperor Of All Maladies. > > I bought and read the book because my brother-in-law was diagnosed with > stomach > cancer. I found the book very informative and quite big on the one thing that > people around cancer patients are looking for : Hope. > > In the ever present debate of form over function, I saw the book as a really > succinct technical write-up, with a little bit of human interest detail > thrown > in to keep the targeted demographic hooked... those not schooled in this > particular science should find this very functional account of the > developments in the fight against Cancer upto year 2010, easily readable. > > > However I must confess that every once in a while I found a few puzzling > statements like: > (On page 171) "One swallow is a coincidence but two swallows make summer". > Was > this a literal translation of some childhood Bengali saying? Does it have > some > deep meaning that eludes me? Did the Editor fall asleep on the job? The good > Doctor must surely know the Ian Fleming quote that we all know from 007 > movies" > Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence..." > > > Other than this picayune stuff the book is awesome. I am willing to mail my > hardcover copy in excellent condition absolutely free of charge to the first > person who gets back to me and who needs to know more about the big C and > has > the stamina to read through 571 pages. > > E. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Protect Goa's natural beauty > > Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve > > Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
