During 2004, I visited the famed Walden’s Pond in Massachusetts, where famous American transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) wrote Civil Disobedience, which inspired Mahatma Gandhi. I had forgotten the visit till meeting a Kerala-born cardiologist, James Mathew, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, again in the U.S.
During the gala annual conference of the Association of Kerala Medical Graduates (AKMG) in Toronto last year, I was invited to the literary session, where author-doctors presented their books. I was to sum up and address the distinguished Keralite doctors and comment on the presentations.
Among the five books presented, Book of Books stood out. I guessed it to be based on the Bible. Watching the presentation for 17 minutes, I was awestruck. The title misled me. The author was Dr. Mathew.
