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You can't get in without walking through the job fair
A one-day leadership conference in Hyderabad on 31 October has been designed so that nobody reaches the stage without passing a job fair first. ₹399, doors at half past eight.
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I tried to run away rather than take the photographs, and prayed for ten good shots
Soumya Susan was handed a camera at a children's Christmas drama in 2007 and nearly handed it back. Six years later she is a freelance photographer who thinks of herself as a missionary with a lens.
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She learned oil painting at a work offsite, and has painted sixty-eight Bible scenes since
Maria Clara works at Genpact, runs a household, and paints. Some canvases take six months. She talks about Daniel among lion-faced men, and why she calls it a mission rather than a hobby.
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Bhaskar Rao played twenty instruments, and sang in ten languages
He sat in the corner of a room until he was ten. Then a pastor asked whether he wanted to go to school. Our 2012 conversation with the flutist, who died in May.
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The street fighter who became a cameraman for the kingdom
Pavithran Golconda grew up in a Christian home in Hyderabad and wanted nothing to do with it. He talks about the night that changed him, the band he started, and why he tells beginners to learn on film.
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Mary Sujani has made three hundred puppets, and every one of them preaches
A Hyderabad designer on childhood play that turned into a profession, and on why the smallest talent is worth refining.
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Samuel Stanley Jones: “Prayer is the only source that gives life to our talents”
A Hyderabad worship leader on being chosen to lead, staying undistracted on a stage, and why a gift is never a burden.
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An MLA recited the whole of Psalm 103 to her in Telugu, and she went to the ladies' restroom and cried
She had been a Crusader, then Legion of Mary, then twenty-five years in the Christian Workers Movement. She was a nominated Member of the Legislative Assembly. And she could not name a single Bible reference.
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For two years of my teenage life I did not look in a mirror
She wanted to be a doctor, followed her friends into a diploma she did not understand, and then heard a voice tell her to resign a job she had held for thirteen months. She ended up running a theological college.
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The candle failed in the mould and left a hole, so she filled it with orange wax and had room for one short verse
The verse that fitted was "I am fearfully and wonderfully made". Months later a pastor in Trivandrum reached for that candle while sitting with a couple who had been told to abort their baby.