September 4th, 2008 The sky was clear and the sun was shining down. But the bad news was that a hurricane was on the move from the Cape Verde islands and was to hit Texas in just a week. The news channels were...
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Survivors
Battles of life
Surviving IKE
I guess we were not brave enough to admit our mistake back then…
We are back again with a survivor story which I came across while on my trip to Assam, the land of blue hills, rivers and streams and tea estates. The story is about an unsung hero, importance of learning basic survivor skills and about the value of life. It is a story about a...
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We lost everything to fire but not the spirit…
What does a 16 year old girl normally converse about? School? Career? Dresses? Movies? Music? Boys? Well, when I and Astha Srivastava (name changed), a sixteen year old from Bal Bharti School, resident of Saraswati Vihar, Delhi had a chat, none of the above topics were discussed. She instead narrated to me an incident...
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Survivor story – Bhopal Gas tragedy
A survivor story in spite of being expected to have a happy ending may sometimes leave a lingering sadness. Our story today is one such. Dr Jayshree. MS, a GDMO in DHS, Delhi recounts hers and her family’s tale of horror that fateful night- on the intervening night of 2nd 3rd December. 1984,...
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Survivor Dedication
Mr. Kailash Chandra was a patient of Pharyngeal carcinoma with widespread metastasis. His last conversation with his daughter on 28.4.05 “You are leaving?” “Yes daddy. I have to join office” “… Am I dying?” His eyes beseeched her to be honest with him. She tried to...
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You punch me and I will punch you back harder
Survivor… hmmm! The word sounds familiar… but not quite familiar. Am I a survivor? I don’t know yet. I don’t feel I have won… but I know I am fighting. There is so much I have had to fight with over the past one year. Here’s my story. I had kidney stones in 2008,...
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When Swine Flu played havoc in their life…
The one scary aspect of being part of this universe is that one never knows when one’s life may turn topsy-turvy with a single incident or how a happy family may turn into a mere number in the statistical records of some official document or just become the headline of a newspaper daily. At...
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As far as I knew cancer meant death but…
My name is Komal (name changed). I am an NO (nursing orderly) working in a government dispensary under Delhi Govt. I stay in the Government quarters and have been on my job since 14 years. My husband works as a driver on a contract basis and I have three children. Other than occasional irritation...
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A Consumer fights back
Life is a battle ground where we have to fight our own personal battles. Some for ourselves , some for our dear ones and some maybe for something which we believe with a passion. It may be for our ideals, our goals, our own selfish ends whatever it be we are always in...
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