By Thomas Scaria MANGALURU: Clara D’Cunha is married with two children, and yet she manages a convent in Mangaluru, a southern Indian city. The Mangaluru-based Bethany congregation shifted its nuns from the beachside Good Shepherd Convent at Ullal to rural centers before handing over the convent and its campus toContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter Kolkata: An all girls’ school in Kolkata’s Christ the King parish this year marks 75 years of education and social engagement in the former capital of British India. Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions, an international Missionary Congregation, started Our Lady Queen of the MissionsContinue Reading
Thiruvananthapuram: Sister Lucy Kalapura did not get upset when suddenly a senior advocate in the Kerala High Court refused her brief in a case regarding her eviction from the home congregation. She knew that she was fighting a lonely do-or-die battle. Before him, a handful of other advocates also hadContinue Reading
By Upala Sen Kolkata: When I tell Nisha Wilson that through the pandemic I have heard of more than one family in Kolkata seeking a nurse and settling for an ayah, she expresses a controlled surprise. “Is it so?” Later, she sends me a written note with a tabulated differenceContinue Reading
Mangaluru: The Congregation of the Sisters of the Little Flower of Bethany, popularly called, ‘Bethany Sisters,’ has completed 100 years of service of God and humanity. The indigenous congregation was founded on July 16, 1921, at Bendur, Mangaluru, by Father Raymond Francis Camillus Mascarenhas of Mangalore diocese to cater toContinue Reading
By Emily Schmall and Karan Deep Singh AGRA: From a rickety fishing boat on the Yamuna River, Sumit Chaurasia points out how the setting tangerine sun catches the sparkle of the mother-of-pearl embedded in the Taj Mahal, India’s majestic monument to love. For a decade, Mr. Chaurasia, 35, has madeContinue Reading
By Auqib Javeed Srinagar: Mental health experts have sounded alarm over a wave of suicides in the Kashmir Valley triggered by back lockdowns with attendant economic crisis. On June 27, a teenage girl and a woman were hospitalized after they tried to commit suicide by taking some poisonous substance inContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Balasore: A three-decade old cultural center in Odisha’s Balasore diocese is on a revival mode on its founder’s return after 15 years. “I am planning to revive the activities of Utkal Vani and look after the academic studies also,” says Father Chacko Vaniyampurayidathil of Balasore diocese. TheContinue Reading
by Deepa Padmanaban Nine members of Pankaj Rai’s family have died from cancer over the past 20 years. But the 25-year-old farmer from Bihar only found out their deaths were likely a result of arsenic poisoning when his father got sick. In 2017, Pankaj took his father, Ganesh Rai, toContinue Reading
By Purushottam Nayak Kandhamal: Ashalota Nayak says her husband’s brave death in Odisha’s 2008 anti-Christian violence has inspired her to serve society. “My husband had no fear of death to witness Jesus as the radicals attacked him,” recalled the 46-year-old widow of Bikram Nayak while speaking to Matters India onContinue Reading