Some autobiographies are so sweet and touching that they read like warm poetry. They are full of gentle memories, a deep love for life, and tender moments that stay in your heart long after you have turned the last page. Same is true with the recently launched autobiography When the Heart Speaks by the Padma Shri Dr Upendra Kaul, a gold medallist in surgery and the first top cardiologist of India with Kashmir origin, known to Kashmiris as U Koul. This book is a sequential narrative of many chapters of Dr Kaul’s remarkable life as a cardiologist of international repute that he has exquisitely penned down with great love and patriotism for his birthplace Kashmir.

Comprising 22 different chapters across 198 pages, the book has foreword by M.A. Pathan, Director Gauri Kaul Foundation (GKF), former Chairman Indian Oil Corporation & Former Resident Director Tata Group. Published by Konark Publishers Pvt. Ltd, New Delhi, it is dedicated warmly by the author to the memory of his immortal mother, Gauri Kaul. As soon as you open the book, you are greeted by pre-publication reviews from eminent personalities, beginning with hon’ble Chief Minister, J&K, Omar Abdullah.

The best traits of an autobiography include a first-person perspective, strict factual accuracy, a comprehensive chronological scope, authentic personal voice, and deep self-reflection on historical or societal context. And in When the Heart Speaks, Dr Kaul has obviously taken care of all that. From the very first chapter of his life i.e., From Khans to Kauls till the last one, Remote Outreach Areas of Gauri Kaul Foundation; the author sequentially carries the reader along and sums up his entire life journey of a cardiologist who has dedicated himself to humanity.

Written in an intimate style, Dr Kaul’s When the Heart Speaks cordially makes the reader visualize every........

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