Two Generations.
One Calling.

In Loving Memory

Dr. Johns K Mangalam

31 March 1962 – 25 November 2020 · Mentor · Guide · Light
Founder of Punarjjany · Father of Sooraj Johns Mangalam

In 2004, on these hills of Poomala — a quiet village some 16 km from Thrissur town, near Mulamkunnathukavu — Dr. Johns founded the Punarjjany (Re-Birth) Charitable Trust for De-Addiction & Rehabilitation (Reg. No. 217/2004), one of Kerala's pioneering centres for recovery.

His own journey gave the work its shape. Dr. Johns had lived through nearly two decades of severe alcoholism himself before he found his way out of it — and he built Punarjjany around what had actually helped him: a medication-free, 21-day Ayurvedic and holistic programme with no imprisonment or forced restriction, built instead on self-reflection and personal growth. Over nearly two decades, Punarjjany walked more than 20,000 people through recovery — and, in the way one reclaimed life ripples outward, touched countless more: the parents, spouses, children and grandchildren who got to keep a father, a husband, a son.

Those who knew him remember the same things: he listened without judgement, he believed in second chances when no one else did, and he treated every person who walked through his doors with dignity. That was his medicine, as much as anything else.

The Continuation

Sooraj Johns Mangalam

Founder & Managing Director
Engineer by training · Master's in Marketing & Management, University of Chester, UK

Sooraj grew up close to his father's work, and then went out into the world — an engineering degree, a master's degree abroad, and a career spanning India, the Middle East and Europe in hospitality, healthcare management and business.

He could have stayed anywhere. He came back to Poomala.

The reason goes back further than any career decision. Sooraj grew up watching his father's addiction from childhood — the drinking, the difficult years, the repeated stays at one rehabilitation centre after another — and then watched him finally stop, and spend the rest of his life rebuilding what he had once feared was gone for good. Sooraj also watched what addiction leaves behind even after the drinking stops: a decade of treatment for the liver disease it had caused. He was at his father's side when Dr. Johns died, on 25 November 2020.

Having lived through his father's entire arc — the fall, the years of struggle back out, the decade of illness that followed, and finally his death — Sooraj understands something no textbook teaches: what it is to be the child of someone in active addiction, and what it is to love someone through the uncertain length of their recovery. That understanding is why The Shore treats a family, not only a patient. The more deeply you understand what the people around an addict actually go through, the more real hope and help you can offer everyone in that circle — not just the one seeking treatment.

Punarjjany remains exactly as his father built it. Sooraj carries it forward today as a steward of his father's work, on his father's behalf. The Shore Wellness is different — it is Sooraj's own creation, shaped by his own two decades of international experience and by everything he learned, first-hand, about what real recovery actually requires.

That is why The Shore is built around a full table of disciplines working together: general physicians and psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers, Ayurveda doctors and practitioners of the mind's more spiritual dimensions. The Shore treats substance addiction, but also the psychological and behavioural patterns — including digital dependency — that can hold a person just as tightly. Ayurveda and allopathy, psychology and psychiatry, and the latest clinical research all sit at the same table here, because Sooraj built The Shore around one belief: real recovery draws on every tool available, for as long as it actually takes.

The Shore Wellness carries his father's values and his own ambition — seven private suites, complete discretion, and family cared for as carefully as the guest. It answers to nothing but the wellbeing of the guests it serves.