Month: August 2010
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Not a Happy Onam
Unna Vritham (Fasting in Onam) Aranmula is located on the banks of River Pamba. Every year, on the day of Onam festivity , three Brahmin elders fast from dawn to dusk abstaining from food and water for a sin although un intentionally committed by their fore fathers for not handing out rice for an untouchable…
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All my life’s a circle-About Jubilee Hospital, Trivandrum.
Memorabilia I’ve been here before as an inmate of Louis Catholic Hostel in 1968, now the Jubilee Hospital in Palayam, Trivandrum and I well remember the happy days I spent here as a first year medical student came to this big city from a village at the age of seventeen. 42 years passed by. A…
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My Name is Melchizedek
More Than a Name It was a busy Monday morning clinic. The nurse was calling the patients by name, “Next..Milky Siddiq…” she shouted. A handsome graceful young man who is an engineering student stepped into my office. He corrected the nurse “My name is Melchizedek”… The nurse was a renewed Christian, still didn\’t click. First…