Ms. Thottam, a member of the editorial board, is the author of “Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women Who Brought Hope and Healing to India.” In the spring of 1947, nothing about the future ...

Jyoti Thottam’s Sisters of Mokama, tells the story of missionaries in the Indian state of Bihar, who bore witness to the tumultuous era, offering a different way to understand the period.

New York Times opinion editor Thottam debuts with a vivid and uplifting portrait of a hospital in the small market town of Mokama in Bihar ... six nuns from the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth ...

Jyoti Thottam’s book, Sisters of Mokama: The Pioneering Women who Brought Hope and Healing to India, is more than just the extraordinary story of six nuns, belonging to the Sisters of Charity ...

“It all happened under the watchful eye of a handful of Mokama police personnel who were onlookers along with the mob.” Sister Anjana said that Sister Aruna Kerketta, who was on call at the ...