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The Beggar Boy: Chasing Dreams During Turbulent Times: A Quest to Leave Poverty Behind
Hardcover
Biographies GeneralChristian Living
ISBN13: 9781966235132
Publisher: Omnibook Publishing LLC
Published: Jan 6 2026
Pages: 220
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.
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