Manjari Sankurathri Foundation

CBC had a wonderful documentary over the weekend on the work done by Dr.Chandra Sekhar Sankurathri.He lost his wife and little kids in the Air India bombing in 1982. He found his calling and started to do amazing work in Kakinada in Andhra Pradesh, India.You can read all about him and his work on the CBCs website.

The patients at his clinic

They operate upon around 150 poor elderly people per day and cure their cataracts. 80% of blindness in India is due Cataract and he says he doing his little bit. They give the gift of sight back to the thousands of elderly people who have been condemned to the life of darkness.

As soon they have been operated upon and their bandages opened they flock to the windows to see the green fields and the red Hibiscus flowers. This deeply moved me, how lightly do we take the gift of sight? The story of the blind watchman moved me to tears. He is watchman for a godown and has to find his way around using a stick, and he is the only bread winner in his house. He was so exited to he see his grandchildren again. You see the tears in his clear eyes, clear of catract.

An amazing individual, Dr.Sankurathri, who didn't allow his tragedy to burn within and consume him, but turned his family's memories into something which is changing lives of the downtrodden.

How many of us have been consumed by revenge and bad thoughts? Imagine what would happen if we just use this bad energy for a good cause? A smile of a grandmother looking at her little granddaughter playing in her lap is worth.