Kishore Vellody found God inside a corpse. In his first year of medical school, beneath fluorescent lights in a windowless room, face-to-face with his first dead body, he cut through marbled layers of yellowed fat with blades and circular saws to get at the nerves and sinew and tissue inside the cadaver that he and his classmates huddled around—and something like scales fell from his eyes.
“It was like opening up a computer, you know, a PC box, and you’re like, somebody created this,” he says. “And I realized then that if that body, that dead body that I was seeing was created, that meant that I also was created.”
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