The transitional phase between who you were once, and who you are becoming
We are born pure. The world tears that soul apart, then offers a quiet threshold home. The Liminal teaches us to read the signs we were never meant to ignore.
Healthcare Leader • Author & TEDx Speaker
Dr Kousar Shah brings more than twenty-five years of strategic and operational leadership across some of India’s foremost healthcare organisations, including Fortis Healthcare, Max Healthcare, Columbia Asia, and Artemis. He is Group Chief Executive Officer of ShardaCare Healthcity and Sharda Hospitals at Sharda University.
A TEDx speaker and the author of two earlier bestsellers, he is known for treating spirituality and humanness as essential to a leader’s success. He lives by a simple creed — mansa, vaacha, karmana — thought, word, and deed held in accord — alongside a record of healthcare innovation, disciplined growth, and repeated turnarounds.
His honours include Healthcare Personality of the Year 2026 by MT India and Medgate, the Dr APJ Kalam Award as an Outstanding Healthcare Business Leader and Innovator, a place among the Top 10 Healthcare Leaders of 2020–21, and the CXO Health Excellence Award. He is equally known for mentoring the leaders who come after him.
The Liminal follows the journey of an ordinary human being. Everyone is born as the purest of souls. As life unfolds, the laws of a good-and-bad world tear that original self apart — most sharply in the early years, and then quietly, all the way through.
At some point, life offers a threshold: a moment when realisation dawns and we are invited to look again at the soul we were born with. That return completes a simple arc — Born, Torn, Born. Few of us take the chance. The signs are already there. We have not yet learned how to read them.
This book gathers real incidents and the stories happening around us, and the immense, hidden signals inside them. It is written for every age. The change it describes can begin whenever a person is willing: as a gift to a teenager, as preparation for young adults before they become parents, or as a way to look again at a life already well underway.
Five elements keep recurring in the lives we actually live — the girl child, the toxic people around us, the lady leader, the mystery of relationship, and the tag the world hangs on a person. The Liminal asks us to observe what we usually keep secret, and to let those observations lead us back.
What the world tears, a threshold can restore.
The signs were never truly hidden.
To be born again is to come home.
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Write to Dr Kousar Shah about the book, a life standing at the threshold, or the quiet work of returning to the soul you were born with.