![]() ![]() Trio get Physics Nobel for research in quantum mechanics.Uttarakhand avalanche: 10 dead, 8 rescued, many still trapped.Narco-terrorism: 1 held with tiffin bomb in Punjab.Live: 10 dead in truck-auto collision in Vadodara.Be 5G ready with these amazing OnePlus Nord offers.Something exciting happened between the overs in the India-SA match!.PhonePe moves domicile from Singapore to India.BD Mishra takes oath as Meghalaya governor.BSF recovers heroin from Pak truck at Attari.Kozhikode: Kasaragod school suspends 10 students for ragging junior.National Investigation Agency, police begin sealing PFI offices across Kerala.Kerala accounts for 35% of new Covid cases in country.I myself work with the health department," says another member 41-year-old Aravindhakshan K P. The members of our family have been working in various fields. I considered it as blessing." "None of us have had to face any difficulties. I don't feel bad about having webbed hands. I haven't faced any physical issues and I can work as any other normal person. Before that I used to work as a welder and fitter. Says 48-year-old Girishkumar, who has webbed hands: "I work as a JCB driver. But we told them the whole story and now they too look at it as something divine," says another member of the Kannatthu family. Her husband's family was initially disappointed. "My daughter recently gave birth to a baby who has webbed hands. We don't know whether the story is true or not," says 66-year-old K M Bhargavan. The Christian family too were besieged by some kind of illness and they soon abandoned the land and left the place. Ever since, the children of our family were born with webbed hands. The Christian family cut down one of the trees at our sacred grove. ![]() "My grandfather had told me about a feud our family had with a Christian family over our property boundaries. This time around, as many as 50 of them came for the annual ritual-all have webbed hands. They gather for such pujas every year but since many of the family members live outside the state not all of them take part. The family members-from 68-year-old Lakshmi, the eldest member to 3-year-old Haran, the youngest member-had gathered recently at the ancestral home for conducting a puja in honour of the snakes. We consider it as a blessing," said 65-year-old Jagadamma, a member of the family. Our ancestral home has a sacred grove where snakes are worshipped. "The webbed hands look like a snake's hood. Though they can be treated surgically the family members do not want to do it. As many as 140 members of the Kannatthu family have webbed hands over the course of two generations. But for a blacksmith family at Kavunkal in Alappuzha its God's blessing. Alappuzha: Doctors call it syndactyly-a medical condition in which fingers or toes are joined together. ![]()
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