Matthew Thommen It’s called Bethlehem. It’s a home for the homeless, a refuge for those rejected elsewhere, and it started, well, not in a manger, but in a poultry shed. The Bethlehem Abhaya Bhavan was set up 20 years ago by Ms Mary Esthappan, a mother of three who livesContinue Reading
Kollam: Sister Tessy Mary FIH chanced upon the news of Queen Elizabeth’s 70th wedding anniversary on one of her routine news-reading sessions. Having known the western culture at close quarters during her short stint as a teacher in Indiana, she was awed by the longevity of the royal marriage. Impressed,Continue Reading
Sr. Leema Rose heads the Catholic Health Training Institute in Wau, South SudanContinue Reading
She could have been an IAS officer; she even wrote the exam. But an interview with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) happened. She got through and was asked to join immediately. Today, she is hailed as the ‘Missile Woman of India’ and ‘Agniputri ‘(one born of fire) afterContinue Reading
The award was given in Delhi on November 18Continue Reading
I dream of a society with no menace of malnutritionContinue Reading
Kiran Kumar Singh from Odisha has been working in the Philippines since 1999.Continue Reading
Father Cedric Anthony Bout celebrated his 100th birthday on November 11Continue Reading
When Ganesh Devy, a former professor of English, embarked on a search for India’s languages, he expected to walk into a graveyard, littered with dead and dying mother tongues. Instead, he says, he walked into a “dense forest of voices”, a noisy Tower of Babel in one of the world’sContinue Reading