"Finished reading this very inspiring memoir. Amit I’m so moved by your faith, discipline,strength, grit and compassion. What an incredible journey of a man with all odds stacked against him! 🐄"
Sonam Kapoor (2017 National Award winner for her film, Neerja)
Sonam Kapoor (2017 National Award winner for her film, Neerja)
"It is a moving testimony of how the author’s cancer (at stage IV) became the instrument not of his death but of his rebirth."
Michel Danino (2017 Padma Shri award winner for Literature & Education)
Michel Danino (2017 Padma Shri award winner for Literature & Education)
HOLY CANCER: How A Cow Saved My Life
By Amit Vaidya
IN STORES NOW/ONLINE NOW!
Given only 6 months to live by his doctors in the US, this is the incredible true story of Amit Vaidya who took his stage IV metastatic gastric cancer death sentence into his own hands. Rather than wait for the end, he embarks on a journey to improve the quality of life for his remaining days. In reality, his travels lead to a ‘back to basics’ living in rural India getting as close to the land, its soil, its roots, and its precious animals as possible. There, he unearths his cure. It only took leaving everything that was familiar to him to save his life. This is a story about taking each day as gift to live, survive and thrive. Now having gone into full remission, he recounts his amazing journey in this one-of-a-kind autobiography.
"I had been preparing to die for so long, I wasn’t sure I knew how to plan to live. Time was a moving gift that I simply wanted should stand still."
By Amit Vaidya
IN STORES NOW/ONLINE NOW!
Given only 6 months to live by his doctors in the US, this is the incredible true story of Amit Vaidya who took his stage IV metastatic gastric cancer death sentence into his own hands. Rather than wait for the end, he embarks on a journey to improve the quality of life for his remaining days. In reality, his travels lead to a ‘back to basics’ living in rural India getting as close to the land, its soil, its roots, and its precious animals as possible. There, he unearths his cure. It only took leaving everything that was familiar to him to save his life. This is a story about taking each day as gift to live, survive and thrive. Now having gone into full remission, he recounts his amazing journey in this one-of-a-kind autobiography.
"I had been preparing to die for so long, I wasn’t sure I knew how to plan to live. Time was a moving gift that I simply wanted should stand still."
A MUST READ:
"Not only will patients who are affected with cancer and terminally ill be able to connect with it, but people interested in knowing how individuals struggle against odds and wage a battle against death will also find the impassioned narrative engaging. It is Vaidya's will to live and his quest to find meaning in his existence that add a different dimension to the book."
The Telegraph
"Not only will patients who are affected with cancer and terminally ill be able to connect with it, but people interested in knowing how individuals struggle against odds and wage a battle against death will also find the impassioned narrative engaging. It is Vaidya's will to live and his quest to find meaning in his existence that add a different dimension to the book."
The Telegraph
HOLY CANCER: HOW A COW SAVED MY LIFE is
available at leading bookstores in India.
The book can also be purchased online at
Flipkart, Amazon & Aditya Prakashan.
available at leading bookstores in India.
The book can also be purchased online at
Flipkart, Amazon & Aditya Prakashan.