Preventing hair loss after cancer

Disha raises funds for new tool that tackles hair Joss after chemo

Losing hair can be more frigh tenin g tban a mastectomy or even death.

"I would rather die than lose my hair," uttered a very scared but determined young lady who refused co go through chemothera py even though her doctor had informed her that this treatmeOL could save her life This young lady is nor d1e o nly one to experience t his dilemma

Acco rding co docrors, in the majority of cases, when cancer p ati ents are recommended to undergo chemotberap)' their fusr questio n will n ot be ''Will I be cured?' i n stead it is "Will I lose my bair?"

Losing hair is one of the most visible signs o f a cancer patient's battle to get well.

"Losing hair during chemotherapy can be traumatic and distressing fo r patient~," said D r Ta ra Chandramouli from Disha - Direction to Hope, which is an organisation that raises fu nds for wo rthwhile causes

"lt can rob them of their confi dence a nd sel f esteem ro look at the mirror and see someone who does n or look like them anymore. A t Disha we wanted to do something ro keep their spirit going Disha helps cancer patients to <lea I with a cruel chapter of their lives by offering them hope in various ways," continued Tara.

Disba is proud to introduce to Mel bourne the 'Scalp Cooling Machine' tharwill s top hair from falling during chemotherapy.

The 'Scalp Cooling Machine' called Dignitana, meaning for dignity, costs $50,000. Disha is aiming to donate this equipment to the Peter M ac Hospir.'ll. Disha will also s upport the Olivia Newton John Cancer & Wellness Centre in their pilot project ro start a Library of Wigs and Accessories. This will aUow the patienrs LO walk our after the treatment w ith a brand new hairstrle rnd1er than with no hair at aU.

An annual dinner dance was recendy held by Disha to raise funds for this wonhwhile cause. Held at Lincoln of Toorak, it was a fun filled ev ening with a serious intent The d1eme of 'Pink for Health' saw the majority of guests make an effort to dress up in variations of pink. With BoJJywood style ente r tainment, music, raffles and auctions the evening was enjoyed by hundreds of people, mainly from the Indian community in Melbourne.

A highlight of d1e evening was an entertaining video of a flash mob dance performed around Melbourne's Flinders Street by the Disha team. The ladies managed to gather many people to join them in singing and dancing to Pbareli William's hit song Floppy Their fun filled video was met wid1 thw1derous applause from the auclience who seemed to appreciate their efforts and enthusiasm.

H owever, the evening reaUy belonged to a young lady who spoke from her heart about her fami ly's journey through her morher's battle with cancer The attendees were touched as she spo ke candirU y about d1e reve rsal of the morher-daughrer roles when she found berself taking on the responsibility o f supporting and assisting her mother during her treatment. Her moving speech brought home the realisation that more needs to be done in terms of cancer treatment, research and education.

Di sha has raised more than $100,000 for cancer since their foundation was fou nded. They have donated mo n ey to rhe Alfred Hosp.ital for lung cancer Researcl1, R oyal Mel bourne Hospi tal for d1e Booe Marrow Transplant Unit., and the R oyal Women's Hospital for ovarian cancec. Di sha continues to work with dedication towards supporting those t h at are fighting t hi s disease and helping those who are coping with or who have survived its effects.

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Government cla i ms that Indians in captivity in Iraq are safe

According to the government, Indians held captive by suspected Sunni militants in Mosul cown of Iraq are une une unharmed even as efforrs continue to secure their release from their abductors in the vjolence-h.it Gulf country.

Exrerna l affairs ministry spokesperson

Syed Akbarndclin cold reporters that efforts were being made to move Indians our conflict zones in Iraq,

He said the government's information flow has improved and is enabling more efficient channels of in formation transmission.

"On the iliplomatic front, our efforts are continwng both in Iraq and outside. Our initiatives are gaining impetus. We are proceeding systematically and carefully. Various doors are opening now; these are primarily in lraq at various levels, all of which are significant," he said.

Akbarudilin claimed there were about 120 Indians in conflict zones in Iraq and 17 had moved out.

"Seventeen lnclians have been removed from die conflict zone \Ve are working to ensure that rest of the Indian .nationals in conflict zones are moved out of there," he said

Asked if there was real danger of d1e 39 abducted lndians being used as a shield, he claimed there was " no safety in captivity".

"'~/e are ever y day trying to obtain information, corroborate information and confirm information. Based on drnr, I can confirm d1ey rema in unharmed as of now," Akbarudilin stared

] t is understood that India is in touch with countries in the region like Saudi Arabia to urge them to assist in freeing die captives.

The Inilia.ns, who belong mostl y to Punjab and Hai-yana, we re working in Mosul as construction workers, drivers or sarutary workers Susp ected militants of tbe Islamic Sta te of Iraq and d1e Levant (ISIL), who have overrun large p ar ts o f northern Iraq and taken over Mosul and Tikrit, abducted d1e workers around a week ago.

Acco riling to Akbarudilin, die 46 Inman nurses Tikric are also safe He said the safety and security of Indians in Iraq remained a matter of prio rity fo r d1e government.

''We have received 120 requests in Baghdad and 300 at our control room in New Delhi for ass istance of various types," he said. Some of the requests may, however, be duplication, he added.

Akbarudclin said diere were more dian 10,000 Indians in Iraq and d1e return of those not in the conftict zones would be on normal contracmal terms. He claimed there were 12 major comparues where Indians were working and the company with the largest presence of Indians, around 2,500, was in , ajaf. Several Indians wan ted to return and the lniliai1 government is also in couch wid1 the companies d1at h ad sent them to Iraq to wo rk.

On reports of the death of an Indian, he said d1ere was no information from the concerned company about d1e possib ili ty of an Indian wor ker in southern Iraq who may have succumbed co a heart attad,.

"When I checked t hat up, d1ey [tl1e Inilian mission] hadn't yet got confirmation from the concerned company. It is possib le that the company is completing their procedures ar their e nd before they come to us. Bur should this unfortunate event have taken p lace, we will assist the return of die mortal remains of diat lnruan national in accorda nce with the standard procedure," Akbaruddin said Officials stated that requests for assistance from lnilian nationals in Iraq were being constantly addressed. The Indian mission will help t he workers to obtain passports ro rerurn, as the employers would have taken their passports away under the Iraq i labour laws.

The ' Phoren' dream resu lts in Iraq misery

Promised a good life in rich havens like Dubai, Kuwait and Jordan, hordes of gullible youth from Punjab and Haryana have been manipulated by travel agents and in country associates to work in miserable conditions in conflict-torn Iraq.

With the number of people stuck in lraq due the recent sectarian Rare- up, rising to neatly 700, the old story of failed "phoren (foreign) dreams" and lost b ig bucks is being retold.

' 'Many youth are pronused jobs in Dubai, Kuwait and Jordan bur d1ey are taken by d1e travel agent.~ to Iraq instead. Once tl1e you th reach there, rney do have d1e option of rerutru.ng. It is a nuserable trap. The youd, spend lakbs of rupees of bard earned money or sell land ro go abroad, and end up in a life of hell," said Paramjir Singh, who remrned from lraq after wor king d1ere for over cwo years.

Bbagwant Mann, the Aam Aadmi Parry (AAP) Lok Sabha member from Sang rur, has taken to social merua and set up a helpline to reach out to youths stranded in Iraq and also help connect them to their families in Punjab.

f-le said the actual number of people from Punjab snick in Iraq could be much higher than 700.

"Though Tdon't have the actual figure, I am told diat up to 4,000 Indians, mostly Punjabis, are sruck in Iraq," Mann said.

"1v1ajority of tl1e youth are raken to Dubai, Jordan and Kuwait and dien sold o ff to companies in Iraq ," he added.

The Punjab government has already submitted a list of 5 14 people from Punjab who are stranded in lraq.

Going abroad is a common fad among youths from Punjab, especially in the Doaba region (ilie area between Sutlej and Beas rive rs) comprising the di stricts of Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Nawan Sbabr and Kapurthala.

" Rural youths and also diose from smaller towns just want co go abroad by any means. They see no fumre and employment fo r themselves in Punjab. Despite big promises, the Punjab governmem does little for d1em. The levels of frustration are Lugh," said Sarnam Singh, a Jalai1clbar-based travel agent.

The unscrupulous travel agents take advantage of mis simation and exp loit such youth. They swin dle them of lakhs of rupees and dump them in counc11es like Iraq," he said.

Accorrung to reports, militants have taken hostage 40 Inilians, mosrly Punjabis, in Iraq's Mosul town. Their fate is unknown since they were abducted. The families of the men smc k in Iraq , who are mostly poor o r lower middle class, say they can only hope for the remrn of di eir loved ones.

·'We don't have the re sources or money to gee them back We want ouc boys back," said Baldev Singh, a relative of one of the youths held hostage in Iraq

The story of Ancaryami and two o thers, who were taken hostage in Iraq neruly a decade ago, is still fresh in the nunds of people but tliat ha s hardly d eter red youd,s from risking everytlung to go to Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq.

The fanuly of A n taryami, who live in a village in Hin1achal Pradesh's U n a ilistrict, adjoining Punjab's H osluarpur ilistrict, wanes to keep away from the media glare at d1is time, when d1e hostage crisis is being repeated wi th odier youd1s from Punjab.

Amaryarni rumself drives a truck and has not worked on foreign shores since

Indian missions pick up pieces of US Visa mess lndian missions in tbe US have mrned to social media ourlets such as Facebook and Twitter as d1ey scram bled co clear up a visa mess as a result of the changing of contractors for proces!>ing consular services.

Following n umerous complaint.~ against the prev ious service provider BLS International, the Indian embassy awarded the new contract for provirung visa and od1er consular services to Cox & ((jogs Global Services i n May.

The switch, however, made ilie ordeal of travelling to India, particularly from d1e West Coast, worse in the i1utial clays. According co a media report, outrage an d anger over delays boiled over inco fights on ar least t\VO occasions at the outsourcing agency's office in San Francisco.

" Is the Indian Consulate in SFO complicit in stealing US passp orrs maybe not but should n or d1e DHS look into trus," t\veeted one angry traveller.

"There would be no eme rgency if you bozos would just process a normal visa application," he said in another tweet.

The Indian consulate general in San Francisco has reassured those who h ad applied wjth the previous service provider

BLS International for Overseas Cicizens hip of India (OCI) that their applications bave been taken over for ptocessing by the mission itse l f.

Earlier, to deal with the crisis, d1e Indian embassy in Washington DC and other Indian consulates in the US started movi ng their own staff to consular service outsourcing centres in order to help the applicants.

The mission s also started directly providing visa services to all Urgent/ Emergency cases and set up helplines for complaints against the previous and new service provider.

The Indian "embassy and consulates are taking extraordinary steps to respond to recent Consular complaints. Write to Consu.larHelpline@indiago\7.org," said a twitter mes sage.

"Senior officers would be visiting the consular service outsourcing centres to monitor the progress in service," the embassy assured in another Lweet.

Passports of Indian workers being held by Iraqi employers

According to Amnesty International, there is evidence that several hundreds of Indians were stranded in the N a jaf province of Iraq as d1eir employer refused to return their passports.

"With fighting between state forces and armed groups intensifying and affecting civilians across Iraq, the stranded Indian workers could be fac ing rising dJtnge rs," Amnesty International India said in a press release

They said they spoke over phone to so me of the Indian workers.

"They said they have not been paid salaries for the past five mond1s and d1eir passports have been held.

"We have been restricting ourselves to the company premises since d1e conflict began because we are scared. \'v' ithout o ur passports, we can't leave this country, and every passing clay rnakes us feel more and more tmsafe. We just want to go home," one o f d1e workers was quoted as relling Amnesty

The workers also cold Amnesty char d1ey had raised di.is concern with the Indian embassy in Baghdad, wluch asked them to provi.de their passport details via text message.

The workers sent the details and are now awaiting a response.

Anod1er worker said their employer told them they were safe and wou ld be moved to safer locations if they perceived a dueat from the armed groups led by the Islamic State in Irag and al-Sham (ISIS). However, another worker said d1ey were only 200 km from the conflict zone.

The international human rights organisation welcomed the lncl.ian goverument's initiatives ro evacuate stranded workers quickly and urged ir to "pay s pecial attention ro ru.igra.i1t workers who may have had to hand over their passports and other travel documents to their employers".

They also called on the armed groups to immediately a.11d unconditionally release all civilians they were holding as hostages, and end all attacks on civilians.

Amnesty furd1er said ir had called on the telephone Lines of the construction company as well as o n d1e mobile phones of three of irs managers but could not get on to anyone.

"Migrant workers, including those from lndia, are among d1e most vulnerable groups in Iraq," said Amnesty.

"Under international huma.rucarian law, state and non-stat e actors are obligated co take necessary precautions to avoid endangering d1e civilian population. The parries to me conflict muse facilitate the safe passage of all chmians w ishing to flee tbe fighting".

Gujarat stepwell listed as World Heritage site

Queen's stepwell, Rani ki Vav, in Gujarat's Patc'ln town, has been added to UNESCO's list of World Herimge sites, said a cultmal ministry release.

Prime tvliti.ister Narendra Modi welcomed the decision, calling it a "matte r of great pride" for d1e state.

' lt was also acknowledged for its water management sys te m and for illustrating the exceptional capaci ty to break large spaces into smaller volumes following ideal aesthetic proportions.

'Rani Ki Vav in Patan., Gujarat, has been added to the UNESCO Wodd Heritage list! A matter of gi·eat pride for us. Next tin1e you visit Gujarat, you mu se visi t Rani Ki Vav, an exceUent symbol of our g reat art and culture," he tweeted.

"Rani ki Vav has been approved for inscription on the World Heritage list," said d1e release, adding that UNESCO made tbe decision at the World Heritage Committee session at Doha.

U r ESCO recognised this masterpiece as an excepcional example of technological development in utilising ground water resources in a single component.

"The ancient stepwell wa.s buil c in che 11th century and is an exampl.e of a wuque lndia.11 subterranean architectural structure. Its seven storeys of ornamented panels of sculpmres and reliefs accurately represent the MaruGmjara style," said the release.

''Following the flooding and d isappearance of die Saraswati rivet due to geotecton.ic changes, the property was buried under layers of s ilt for almost seven cenruries and has been preserved undemeatl1 an exceptional state of conservation by d1e Archaeological Survey o f India (ASl) ," the release added.

Reconnecting maritime cultural landscapes across the Indian Ocean

The cu.ln1re ministry has launched a project that aim s to re-estab lish commrnucation between countries across the .lndian Ocean.

Culture ministry secretary Ravindra Singh launched t he 'Mausarn' project at d1e 38th session of the World Heritage Committee at Doha.

"One of rhe main deliverables o f this project is d1e nomination of maritime cultural landscapes across the Indian Ocean as a transnational property on d1e \Xforld Heritage IJs t of UNESCO," stated an official release. Tbe project endeavours to position itself at rwo levds.

''At the macro level, it aims to re-connect and re-establish communications between counrries of the Indian Ocean world which would lead to an enhanced understa.11ding of cultural values and concerns," said the statement.

''A t the rnicro level, d1e focus is on understanding national cultures in their regional maritime milieu," .it added.

According to the sta tement, the central rnemes that hold this project together are chose of cultural routes and maritime landscapes thar not only linked different parts of me Indian Ocean, but also

The Rani- ki- Vav (Queen's) stepwe/1, on the banks of the Saraswati River in western Pata n, some 120 kms from Ahmedabad, has been granted UNESCO World Heritage status connected the coastal ce ntres to d1e ir hinterlands.

New approach to development needed that benefits poor and saves the environment

There migh t not be any e nd to the debate on h ow to promote urban d evelopment without harming the environment.

However, environmemal journalist and aumor Baha Dutt believes she knows where d1e problem lies.

The is sue is a "development model drnt alienates locals perspective and is carbon intensi ve," says Dmt.

"There is something wro ng with our model of d evelopmem that is so carbon inten sive, a.11d doesn't take into account how local people feel about natural resources".

As an environment journalist, Dutt has compiled an account of her work assignments in a bo0k tided Green IV'01,· d1at talks abonc development in different parts of the cotmtry. It explains bow di.is aimless deforestation .i s destructing the serene environment and displacing many peop le

One of d1e chapters of the book highlights how in 2006, the then chief 1nin.ister of Uttar Pradesh , Mulayam Singh Yadav, proposed a plan to build a stace-ofart airport at his ancestral Safai v illage in the Ecawah district.

This "development" was a death warrant for sarus cranes of India, \vho have made d1ese vast wetlands their home.

Upo n learning of bis proposa~ Dutt pledged Mr Yadav co abandon d1e non-migratory crane's narural habitat. H.e initially refused to respond, but when her CNN -IB:M news channel spoke of d1e issue, Yadav had no other oprion bur to drop the project.

The tit-bits of this investigative• environment report is what the book is all about.

"The book looks at areas o f conflict, for instance in the northeast where over I 00 dams are slated for construction in a biodiversity hotspot, or areas like Goa where people have wa_ged a war against nuning," she said.

"Everyone says tha t mining or dams will bring development to a region, but by that .logic Oclisha, Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand should have been our most rich states".

Du rt feels development models sustain lifestyles of me rich, and barcl.ly do anything for t h e development o f d1e area of the poor.

''1 wish our development models were for our p o pulation or d1e poor. Bm what I have tried to highlight is that more dams, roads and ruining projects are being used to sustain the lifestyles o f the rich in our cities," she said.

"If diey were meant for the poor, then tbat would still be. less of a problem Odcl.ly enough we develop coal power plants for the rich and want the poor to turn to renewable sources of energy such as so lar," she concluded.

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Green leafy vegetables are good for you (whichever way you eat t hem!)

Mamta Lalwani

This happened quite a while ago, back in L1dia, during my college days. J was in my furn ! year and ver y close co graduating so f decided to invite some college friends over for lunch to celebta[e my binhday. l'vfy sister-in-law offered to cook palak paneer and I thought I would whip up my famous pm1i pmi co serve as an appetiser

I felt quite good having opted for the easier of the two dishes to make. The "puris" were ready made, I onJy needed co prepare the pa11i so I came bad, earlier than usual from college and set about doing my smff. I cook ouc all the ingreclients, whizzed them through the b lender and pm them in a bowl. I got interrupted b y tbe door be ll and ran to let m y friends in.

Everyone wished me "Happy Birthday" and had brought presenrsl l got really flustered and excited. All thoughts of the p,mi pmi got shoved ro the background, as I started ripping ope n my presents.

I realised I bad promised them my famous p mi pu,i so l went to the kitchen co get it A l l I had to do was add the icy co ld water co the ground mixture in the bow l which 1 quickly clid, decorated ic w ith boondi; and ver y confident of my special.icy, served it without tasting it. One b y one all m y friends casted it and each one of them put their p lates down with a very weird express ion on their faces. The expression was an amalgam of confusion and pure clisgust! What on earth was going on? Wh y in the world were m y friends acting like I had fed them rat poisoa?

I quickly tasted it myself and wished I were dead!

My sister- in-law who was makingpalak pa11eer had ground the pcilak and some 11111salas in a s imil.ar bowl co 11:i.ine. I had accidentally served that with the go!gappas and she in tbe mean time had come into the kitchen aad pm my pani p11ri mixmre in rbe palak paneen The outcome was two really bizarre dishes! " Palak Puri" and "Pani Paneer"! Basically there was nothing to eat on m y birthday! There were presents for sme but was I going to give an ything back to m y fr iends? No sir! I was going to starve my friends on my b irthday ! A pa rty they'd never forget. Surprise!

Sweet daughte r -in-law

Nuzhat Rasheed l was newly married and v ery eager to please m y in -laws In those clays there we.re huge expectations from daughters -inlaw, especially in the first couple of years of marriage. i\liy cl ear mot!1er bad caught me all tl1e tricks aad I had made her proud. I used my instincts when it came co adding in 111tJsalas. After a full day of laborious cooking i\'1y in-Jaws arrived very punctuall y and after tl1e pleasamries we re exch anged, clinner was served. A very strange eirpression came over their faces the moment they tasted the food. They all seemed to be exchanging glances and smil es that d idn't exactly say "WOW" ! \Vhat were these snii les about? 'i\'lhat on earth was going on? I was so busy serving everyone I hadn't casted tl1e food yet. :Maybe it was time to do so.

I had onJy been married a few days and m y in-laws were coming over for tl1eir very first meal at our place, which meant they were going to taste my cooking for the very first time. I am a very good cook, conlidant of m y culinar y skill.s, but on tliis occasion was nervous nevertl1eless because it was my in-laws l had to impress.

I had decided to go the extra mile and prepare a huge feast. Since cooki ng came so naturally to me I never folJowed recipes.

1 was very pleased w ith the sumpruous spread.

1 quickly puc some food on my plate and into my mouth. \X!hy did everything taste like dessert? Oh my God! 1 had pm sugar in. the food instead of salt!

Nothing goes to waste here! Ru

Duff

I was cooking a chicken soup o n e night, along witl1 some fried chicken, as an appetiser before the mam course.

When the chicken was fried I realised there was some unused corn Aour lying around. I thought it would be a tenible waste to throw it away, so 1 decided co u se it in the soup The excess corn Aour in the soup completely destroyed it, rendering the main course inedible to all and sundry !

My husband tried to eat it on account of the fact that be was starving. However, it was an exercise in futility becau se it tasted like goo! My kids clidn't have ir either; they hated it. I thought, rhe hell with t h is, 1'11 eat it m yse lf, but spat it out as soon as I tri.ed it. So

1 dec id ed co just tluow it to the dog. The dog examined it fro m all side s and l ooked at me like I was crazy serving bim a clish like that! Even the clog d idn't eat m y cooking!

To salvage a little bit of corn flour, 1 had destroyed the famil y 's entire meal and wasted two chickens!

Red hot chilli aloos UzmaBeg

I was visiting my cousin in London an d decided co try m y culinary skills on hirn. He was a bachelor and a very bad cook so I had a great chance of looking really good in front of the really bad. l ran to the kitchen. The oil was burning hot and there was smoke everywh ere. I told my cousin to o pen the window and proceeded to put chilli powder in d1e oil

I decided to make aloo ki sabzi (curried potatoes). It was d1e simplest recipe and wouJd be easy, or so I d1ought!

The family cook back home had said to heat up the oil and put red chiU i powder in it before adding the potatoes. I put the o il in the pot to heat and settled in from of the TV to cm the potatoes and got completely absorbed in tbe television show that m y cousin and l were watching. After a while m y cousin said, "I sme U sometlung burning in the kitd1en" Oh dear! I bad completely forgotten about ilie project 1 had commenced!

As soon as I threw in the chilli, the oil Rared up in to Rames! I screamed .My cousin rush ed into the kitchen. He was horrified to see the Aames and grabbed tl1e burning pot and shoved it under d1e tap in the sink. As soon as the water hit the o il the Aames burst our of control an d }ut the ceiling! 1 screamed hysterically

My cous in , realising that the apartment was going co be on fire pretty soon, grabbed the Aaming pot and made a mad dash for d1e balcony Meanwhile I was sc ream.ing hystecicaUy and waving a ve ry sharp butcher's knife i n d1e air. My cousin saw the knife coming straight at him a nd to avoid being scabbed, he made a s harp turn rig h t into the g lass dinning table which moved wi t! lus weight and jammed into the gyprock wall, putting a big dent in i t!

He somehow managed to escape a U iliis drama and make it to ilie balcon y door. The fire a larm was deafening. There was banging on tl,e front door and seconds la ter the concierge burst

INDIAN LINK into t he apa r 1ment. 1 just kept screaming unconrroliabl y throughout iliis fiasco. The fire was finally p ut out. The pot had to be lefr outs id e overnight for it to coo l down. My cousin was b leeding from having h it the glass cable's corner while trying to avoid being stabbed by m e. The landlord had to be informed about the big dear in the dioning room wall and the black kitch en ceiling, and of course my cousin had to pay for all the damage!

Oops! AJJ l was trying to do was m a ke aloo ki st1bzi.

Egg sa nd chick s Veena

Kumar

It was a beautiful cloudy day a nd my whole fanill y demanded breakfast in bed. The boys all had a day off from school and m y husband and I always SL'lttecl d1e cla y late anywa)~ so I decided to spoil everyone. They all wanted au English style b reakfast with th e works; eggs, baked beaus a nd roast Buc unlike ilie English, they wanted their eggs boiled. With at least two eggs per person it came to ten eggs in all so 1 dec ided ro boil the entire case Qf a d9ze n eggs way I read

As soon as I put t he eggs qn the phone rang.

I read recipes tne same · \ oet to · science f1ct1on. the end and I think.

Mrs Sharma's son was in love with aJ,ori and she was devastated, an d of course 9 o'clock in the morning was t he best rime to bring it up. I got completely engrossed in me sqap opera tha t was Nus Sharma, The Son and His Gori. Kind of W<e The Lion, Tbe IVitch, t111d The lf:1/ardrobe! Goss ip had a scrange way of g iving imm ense satisfaction to all participants Th e eggs were comp letely out of focus bf now and d1e screams for breakfast iliac came from up stairs were totally muffled. The only thing chat was crystal clear was th e gori dragon who was about ro enter Mrs Sharma's Li fe

The loud wail of the fire alarm made me jump our of my skin and brought the rest of t he reside nts of the house come iliunclering downstairs. THE EGGS!!! Oh Ill )' Goel! wlrs Sharma had to be stopped or the fire engines would be parking outside pretty soon! Tbe eggs no lo nger existed! They had boiled t hem selves to dead,; all the water was gone and die eggs were omv on the ceiling! Instead of breakfast in bed I h ad given my fanuly a special treat with breakfast on the ceil ing !

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