A Losing Battle.....Lost..??

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Dignified grit...Emotional strength and sheer determination....words that would seem few, to describe the conviction with which the 'Iron' lady Medha Pathkar continues with her stuggle for the good of scores of villagers in the Narmada valley. The area spans the states of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Years ago when she set out on the cause, it raised quite an uproar. A time when I still hadn't weaned off Tom & Jerry or the Laurel & Hardies of comic strips and 'NEWS' of any kind...still something forced upon me by my dad for the 'greater' knowledge sake. But as I grew, Medha Pathkar was a name that kept on cropping up more and more. Magazines, newspapers (still remember a picture published on the front page of the Times of India), and of course television that beamed visuals of a frail woman wrapped in a cotton saree struggling to be....

Celebrity Worship..!!

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Was just watching an edition of the Oprah Show on Star World. Wow...!! What a woman....She's been that beacon of hope to so many women ALL OVER THE WORLD who's not had it so easy. She has also been the source of inspiration, a torch-bearer to so many issues. Well, the plight of America's soldiers...families coping with so many problems. Modern day dilemmas....Well each of these that have gained so much attention and close-view scrutiny...all Kudos to her work...!! But one particular thing that caught my attention was this 'edition' (prefer to call it that..!!) Well this was on an extension into her family. Her 'new family' as she put it. She'd decided to buy/adopt a new pet (a dog) into her family, and the edition was on how she'd taken the decision and how at the end of it all..she decided to adopt three instead of two....