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Ganguly out to save a life in Kolkata
Published on Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 09:56, Updated on Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 13:10 in India section
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Kolkata: Team India's comeback boy, Sourav Ganguly, is out to save an ailing boy's life in Kolkata. Playing Good Samaritan, the Prince of Kolkata recently auctioned off his autographed bats to help 19-year-old Raj Goswami, who is ailing from a liver malfunction.
Raj needs a partial liver transplant, which is going to cost him Rs 25 lakhs. Ganguly has donated Rs 17 lakh earned from the auction to save Raj's life.
"Whatever money I am donating is not important. The important thing is Raj recovers from his illness and we all will pray for him," Ganguly said at the end of the auction.
Raj's family is grateful that Dada has extended a helping hand.
"I can't believe this has happened. We are very poor and lost all money in my sons treatment in one year. He is God to me. I wish him more and more success to life," Chanda Goswami, mother of Raj, says.
This isn't the first time Ganguly has played Good Samaritan. Earlier, he had collected Rs 60 lakh for tsunami victims and Rs 15 lakhs for a child suffering from cancer.
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Sourav dada....u r the best...
hattz-off
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applaudable job friend, keepit up.
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It looks like these are some PR work. These days Ganguly gets millage in the Media what Bradman would not
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This ranks nobler to any of your stellar achievements on the cricket field!By your gesture, you have stirred the conscience
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You are Psychotic. At lease have some prize word for good cause no matter who and how he does.
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