Sisters of Mokama By Jyoti Thottam

Book Page ^ | April 2022 | Alice Cary

[LadyDoc]

After 20 years of research, Jyoti Thottam shares the immersive and unlikely story of a group of nuns from Kentucky who opened a hospital in India in 1947.

...When her mother was 15, she left her home at the southern tip of India and traveled more than 1,000 miles to Mokama, a small town in an area considered to be the poorest and most violent in the country. There, she spent seven years studying nursing at a hospital run by a handful of Catholic nuns from Kentucky

[LadyDoc]

A great book by a NYTimes editor (!) that actually praises the work of some nuns from KY who started a hospital in rural India. The story is taken from the archives/letters and interviews of the sisters and the Indian students who studied nursing at the hospital

[Cronos]

Thank you, just bought it on kindle.

[LadyDoc]

I worked in Africa in a similar situation with some German Dominican nuns in the 1970s.

Things have changed of course: The local nuns run the hospital. But the struggles of getting supplies and the hard work was similar.

[robowombat]

Where in India is Mokama?

[LadyDoc]

North east India north of Calcutta near the border of Nepal.

[robowombat]

Is this in Nagaland?

[LadyDoc]

no, farther west near Nepal.
I don’t know how to post a map, try google.