Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India (Library Binding) (ISBN-13: 9781638084099)

New York Times editor Jyoti Thottam's mother was part of an extraordinary group of Indian women. Born in 1946, a time when few women dared to leave their house without the protection of a man, she left home by herself at just fifteen years old and traveled to Bihar -- an impoverished and isolated state in northern India that had been one of the bloodiest regions of Partition -- in order to train to be a nurse under the tutelage of the determined and resourceful Appalachian nuns who ran Nazareth Hospital. Like Thottam's mother's journey, the hospital was a radical undertaking: it was run almost entirely by women, who insisted on giving the highest possible standard of care to everyone who walked through its doors, regardless of caste or religion.

Author: Jyoti Thottam
ISBN-10: 1638084092
ISBN-13: 9781638084099
Publisher: Center Point
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2022
Pages: 500
Format: Library Binding
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.72w x 1.06d
Large Print