Jessy Joseph New Delhi, July 14, 2020: Sister Sujata Jena could not sleep after seeing a picture of a young girl with a heavy load on her head in a WhatsApp message. “Her stained face, wet with tears, haunted me,” the member of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and MaryContinue Reading
Lamka, July 13, 2020: Ever since he was little, V Ginkhanpau has found true joy in the lap of nature. His fondest childhood memories include venturing into the deep forests of Manipur, in search of bamboo shoots, wild fruits, and berries. “Bamboo is a part and parcel of our dailyContinue Reading
By Philip Mathew Puducherry, July 12, 2020: For months, village women who passed a bar on their way to church or the Hindu temple suffered the lewd comments flung at them by drunken patrons. Sister Anthonysami Alphonsa, whose office was in the nearby town of Ginjee in Tamil Nadu state,Continue Reading
Mumbai, July 10, 2020: Dharavi slum, the largest in Asia, is a true success story in India’s fight against coronavirus. Father Christopher D. Jeyakumar, parish priest of the local church of St. Anthony, recounts the problems of the population during the pandemic crisis, and the work of the Church toContinue Reading
Panaji, July 9, 2020: Sister Marie Lou Barboza was shocked to see the condition of a teenage girl one of her volunteers brought to her. The girl had burn marks on her body, and her unkempt hair was cut haphazardly. She would become hysterical when someone approached her. Barboza discoveredContinue Reading
New Delhi, July 9, 2020: In a squalid slum below a partially built flyover in eastern Delhi, Satyendra Pal stands by a whiteboard propped against a straw hut, with half a dozen children wearing masks and sitting on the floor looking up at him. This is Pal’s open air classroom,Continue Reading
Aishwarya Kumar Meerut, June 29, 2020: Unprotected and poorly paid, an all-women army of health workers confront suspicion, anger and the threat of infection as they go door to door searching for coronavirus sufferers in India’s poor communities. About a million accredited social health activists, or ASHAs, are deployed inContinue Reading
By Musheera Ashraf, Saharanpur, June 23, 2020: Around 5:30 pm on June 18, Israr left his village Imliya on his motorcycle for nearby Kutesra village. The 30-year-old carpenter was going to measure furniture at a customer’s place. While on his way to Kutsera, Israr was “beaten up mercilessly with sticksContinue Reading
By Alia Allana New Delhi, June 22, 2020: India’s coronavirus response has affected Indians very differently. One thing unites them, though: a biscuit. The evening, surender malik recalls, was a blur. Exhausted, he had just sat down to watch television as his wife prepared dinner when Prime Minister Narendra ModiContinue Reading
By Saji Thomas Kattappana,June 15, 2020: Sr. Lijo Joseph calls a Kenyan number on WhatsApp from a hospital in Chikmagalur, and a young woman responds, “Hello.” The member of Congregation of the Mother of Carmel then says: “I am Sr. Lijo Joseph, a doctor calling from Corona Care from India.”Continue Reading
