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The Beggar Boy: Chasing Dreams During Turbulent Times: A Quest to Leave Poverty Behind

The Beggar Boy: Chasing Dreams During Turbulent Times: A Quest to Leave Poverty Behind - Paperback

by Ashok Kumar
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ashok KumarTheme:Religious Orientation/Christian, Topical/Christian InterestPublish date:1/6/2026Pages:220
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Omnibook Co.ISBN-13:9781966235125ISBN-10:1966235127UPC:9781966235125Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ReligionBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Christian Living, Medical (Incl. Patients)Book Topic:Personal MemoirsSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.222Product ID:SCNSJHTRM7

The Beggar Boy: Chasing Dreams During Turbulent Times: A Quest to Leave Poverty Behind is an adult nonfiction work blending memoir, mythology, and religious commentary.

Drawing on his perspective as a physician, Ashok Kumar, M.D., reflects on patient care in a small town with limited resources and on the human realities behind cardiac mortality, healthcare access, local treatment, service, poverty, and spiritual purpose. The book's central concern is not only how people survive illness and hardship, but why they wish to keep living: "Good health is about the reasons one wishes to be alive."

Set against themes of poverty and India, The Beggar Boy considers medicine as a calling, service as a response to suffering, and spiritual inquiry as part of a life spent seeking meaning. It is positioned for readers of medical memoir, physician reflection, Indian life writing, and spiritually engaged nonfiction.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Omnibook Co.ISBN-13:9781966235125ISBN-10:1966235127UPC:9781966235125Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, ReligionBook Subcategory:Memoirs, Christian Living, Medical (Incl. Patients)Book Topic:Personal MemoirsSize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.222Product ID:SCNSJHTRM7
Kumar, Ashok: - Ashok Kumar, M.D., is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, and a clinical cardiologist at Saint Peter's University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.He lives with his wife and is in private practice with his daughter, a cardiologist.
Publisher: Omnibook Co.

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