New Delhi: At a time when the world is grappling with staggering amounts of plastic waste and its environmental ramifications, a woman in India’s northeastern state of Assam has hit upon a novel idea to address the problem while also helping poor women earn a livelihood from it. Rupjyoti SaikiaContinue Reading
Old Goa: The Museum of Christianity is located in the 17th-century Santa Monica Monastery in the heart of Old Goa, a beautiful district of churches, monuments and ancient monastery ruins. The church is attached to a three-story stone building. The museum is in the strait. Over the past three years,Continue Reading
Mangalore: Alisha (not her real name), an 18-year-old abuse survivor, thanks Apostolic Carmel nuns for giving her “a new lease on life and a future.” The curly haired girl has joined a training school for nurses after completing 12th grade at Carmel School, managed by nuns of the 150-year-old indigenousContinue Reading
By Matters India Reporter: Panaji: Father Heston Ferrao, assistant parish priest of Our Lady of Snow Church, Raia, jumped into action when he found no one to prepare graves for the frequent deaths in his parish. “Our grave-digger was on leave. The parish had some times 3 to 4 Covid-19Continue Reading
By Vivek Narayanan Chennai: On May 1, R Seetha Devi waited outside the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital to admit her 65-year-old mother who had tested Covid-19 positive. After hours, they managed to get R. Vijaya admitted to Government Stanley Hospital, but she died. To prevent others from struggling likeContinue Reading
By Irudhaya Jothi Kolkata: Catholic priests and nuns in West Bengal have been engaged with a multipronged approach to curtail the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. The second wave of the virus surged in the eastern Indian state March-April when it was going through an election process. Archbishop Thomas D’SouzaContinue Reading
Irudhaya Jothi SJ Unokoti: Women of a tribal community in the northeastern Indian state of Tripura show the way to Aatmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India). They take a fist full of rice before putting it in the cooking pot, and this rice is collected and shared with the poor in theContinue Reading
Bangalore: For an hour, Mr Preetham Rodrigues, 42, pondered over the text message he had seen in a WhatsApp group. “A four-year-old possibly asymptomatic child (orphaned by Covid) needs to be transported to Bangalore today… This person needs to be able to take care of a 4-year-old, feed him, maybeContinue Reading
By Soumya Muttappillil Changanacherry: A team of youngsters in Kerala has taken up a unique mission: Bury Covid victims. Arun Joseph Nedumparambil, one of the team members, narrates how it all began with a telephone call last year. “My 23-year-old son has died. Will you come and help in buryingContinue Reading
By Sami Ahmad Patna: Tabassum Ali is among the most visible faces in Patna, capital of Bihar state. A normal day in the 41-year-old woman goes like this: On April 13 morning, the social worker met with National Cadet Corps’s (NCC) group commander Brigadier Vinesh Rana at Patna. Soon after,Continue Reading
