SOUTHERN INDIA NURSE PROSPERS BY MOVING NORTH TO DELHI
May 1st, 2007
BY RAGHAVENDRA VERMA, in New DelhiSHY but confident, Leenia Thomas, 31, is among the few fortunate nurses in India satisfied with their present employment and not dreaming of immigrating to the UK, USA or the Gulf. However she still lives 2,000 km away from her hometown in the southern state of Kerala, which provides a large proportion of the nurses in India because of its high literacy rates and unusually strong cultural position of women. She had to learn northern India's Hindi language, besides English and her mother tongue Malayalam, for her present job of ...
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