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Kerala Palliative nurse Selvy recounts experiences of tending to people in pain

Sreelatha Menon/Thrissur Palliative nurses are made of another metal. Their work makes them different from hospital-based nurses. ``We visit homes and meet the patients mostly bed-ridden or terminally ill where they are in situ. We don’t meet them in hospitals like other nurses. “Many times we find them in the store room (work area) of the house or the back yard as the family may have confined them there to p...

In Kerala people suffering incurable pain are not left alone

Sreelatha Menon/Thrissur Long before Ratan Tata’s young protégé Shantanu Naidu turned his heartache for the lonely aged people into a start-up called Good Fellows under the Tata Trust, a community-led model of Good Fellows has been in force in Kerala. It’s meant for people who are terminally ill, bedridden, or suffering from illness beyond medicines and doctors. The programme is backed by the Government and lo...

Kerala’s Palliative care movement is unprecedented across the world

Sreelatha Menon/ Thrissur Long before Ratan Tata’s young protégé Shantanu Naidu turned his heartache for the lonely aged people into a start-up called Good Fellows under the Tata Trust, a community-led model of Good Fellows has been in force in Kerala. It’s meant for people who are terminally ill, bedridden, or suffering from illness beyond medicines and doctors. The programme is backed by the Government a...

Ayurveda specialists in the service of Kerala sportspersons

Sreelatha Menon/Kochi Sports Ayurveda! Believe it or not, it is a well-evolved department in Kerala with its specialists and its strategies for the management of injuries like Allopathy. If you were to visit the ongoing Kerala state school athletics meet in Kochi, you would find Ayurveda orthopaedic specialists and therapists in each of the 17 venues where events are being organised. Doctors from allopathic wing also are there but both...

Ayurveda specialists in the service of Kerala sportspersons

Sreelatha Menon/Kochi Sports Ayurveda! Believe it or not, it is a well-evolved department in Kerala with its specialists and its strategies for the management of injuries like Allopathy. If you were to visit the ongoing Kerala state school athletics meet in Kochi, you would find Ayurveda orthopaedic specialists and therapists in each of the 17 venues where events are being organised. Doctors from allopathic wing also are there but both...

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Sanskrit scholar Onampilly Faizy runs Islamic academy where Vedanta and Quran are taught

Sreelatha Menon/Thrissur There are many educational institutions run by the Jamaat or other Muslim bodies all across the country. They go about their job teaching Islamic scripture, Islamic laws, Hadith, and so on. The Academy of Shariat and Advanced Studies in Thrissur in Kerala (ASAS) in Thrissur in Kerala is however a bit different as its principal is a Sanskrit scholar from Sri Sankara University Kalady (the birthplace of ...

Sanskrit scholar Onampilly Faizi runs Islamic academy where Vedanta and Quran are taught

Sreelatha Menon/Thrissur There are many educational institutions run by the Jamaat or other Muslim bodies all across the country. They go about their job teaching Islamic scripture, Islamic laws, Hadith, and so on. The Academy of Shariat and Advanced Studies in Thrissur in Kerala (ASAS) in Thrissur in Kerala is however a bit different as its principal is a Sanskrit scholar from Sri Sankara University Kalady (the birthplace of ...

Kerala: How Dalit Muslims forced Waqf to end discriminatory masjid bylaws

Sreelatha Menon/ Thrissur Kerala Muslims have taken the first step towards restoring dignity and civil rights to its Dalits who have been treated historically as social outcasts by the community. The state Waqf board this week ended the discriminatory practices followed in the Puthoorpalli juma masjid said to be over four centuries old. The traditional by-laws of the family-owned mosque forbade certain communities ...

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