In 1993, a young doctor couple landed in Assam’s Karimganj district, leaving behind a comfortable life in urban Tamil Nadu, only to find a decrepit, run-down establishment in a place beset by poverty, illiteracy and multiple socio-economic issues.
Electricity was a dim flicker and running water a luxury at the Makunda Christian Leprosy and General Hospital in Karimganj that Dr Vijay Anand Ismavel and Dr Ann had chosen to be their home for the next three decades.
In their twenties back in the......
