Humans of Chennai: a hopeful Deepavali in the city after a tough year
The Hindu
On Deepavali, the city wakes up hopeful for a better, safer and happier year. Team MetroPlus speaks to people who have worked through the uncertainties of the pandemic, on what the festival means to them now
Biju VG came to Madras in 1992 to work as an operation theatre helper, a job promised to him through a letter from a distant uncle. The year he finished school, he took the train from his native Pattanamthitta and landed here clad in a veshti, his shirt sleeves rolled up to his forearms in characteristic Malayalee fashion.
Much has happened in the 29 years he has worked at Padma Clinic and Nursing Home, Kilpauk; he is now a trained emergency paramedic, radiographer and technician overseeing the maintenance of all hospital equipment and an OT assistant for neuro- and ortho-surgeries, studying while working full-time.
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