Hills Of Angheri

For as long as Nalli can remember the guardians of her village of Angheri the hills that have so often come alive in her grandfather’s stories have been asking her to do something with her life . Twelve-year-old Nalli is restless to pursue a dream rather unusual for a girl in her traditional society she wants to be a doctor. After all how else will she stand by Jai-her friend and hero-when he returns as a qualified surgeon to start Angheri’s very own hospital? Adamantly resisting all the objections her family raises Nalli travels to Madras and then to London to study and experiences a world she had never imagined. She learns to keep her voice down and sit with her knees together is haunted by Subbu the first human cadaver she cuts up and encounters complicated medical cases that test her faith in the values Appa taught her to live by and her own skills as a surgeon. Yet for all her adventures Nalli yearns constantly for a sight of Angheri’s hills for Ajja’s gods and Appa’s advice and most of all for the hospital of her dreams to become a reality. But her return home is fraught with heartbreak and disillusion and Nalli sets off again this time to remote Keshavganj in search of solace and the fulfillment of her heart’s desire. Sensitive and humorous graceful and invariably engaging Kavery Nambisan’s latest novel tells the story of a young surgeon coming to terms with the untidiness of life and her profession. About the Author Kavery Nambisan is from Coorg district of Karnataka. She graduated from St John's Medical College Bangalore and did her surgical training and FRCS in England. Since then she has devoted most of her working life to practice in rural Indian and has worked as a surgeon in Bihar Uttar Pradesh Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. She is now surgeon and medical adviser to Tata Coffee Limited. Kavery Nambisan is the author of several children's books and four novels. She is married to journalist and poet Vijay Nambisan.