M P Joseph
Dr. Thanksy Francis Thekkekara lived in Mumbai. A retired civil servant from the Indian Administrative Service (Maharashtra cadre), she worked in the gender and development space, for the financial inclusion of poor women through self help groups. She was an avid votary of pluralism and delighted in the potpourri of cultures that is India. Menacherry Paul Joseph IAS was Collector, Ernakulam and Mayor, Cochin when Pope John Paul II visited Cochin. His seminal essay on Syrian Christianity was published in Routledge’s ‘Eastern Christianity and Politics in the 21st Century’. His books includRead More...
The Nasranis: Their Origins, Culture, Custom and Cuisine
Books by (Late) Dr. Thanksy Francis Thekkekara, M. P. Joseph, Rev. Fr. Pius Malekandathil, Tanuja Mullick
The ‘Nasranis’, meaning the followers of the man from Nazareth, are like the Coptic Christians of Egypt, a two millennium old ancient Christian community on the verdant Malabar coast of southwestern India, Kerala. With a population of about 5 million and forming just 15% of the state’s population, the Syrian Christians as they are also called, are front runners in social, economic, cultural, educational and spiritual growth globally and across India an
The Nasranis: Their Origins, Culture, Custom and Cuisine
Books by (Late) Dr. Thanksy Francis Thekkekara, M. P. Joseph, Rev. Fr. Pius Malekandathil, Tanuja Mullick
The ‘Nasranis’, meaning the followers of the man from Nazareth, are like the Coptic Christians of Egypt, a two millennium old ancient Christian community on the verdant Malabar coast of southwestern India, Kerala. With a population of about 5 million and forming just 15% of the state’s population, the Syrian Christians as they are also called, are front runners in social, economic, cultural, educational and spiritual growth globally and across India an
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