It’s late afternoon and birds keel over the squat steeple of St Thomas English Church (STEC) that stands at a bend on Santhome High Road. Children rush out of the school gate, a few swing from the low branches of trees that swish noisily in the brisk sea breeze. “St Thomas’ strength lies in the fact that it is a family church. It was the only part of the church that was destroyed,” says Sheeba. And, above the roar of the traffic rise the words so loved by the people here — ‘There’s a church near a bend on the sea shore, No lovelier place I love more.’

Source: The Hindu December 27, 2017 08:52 UTC