This was a New Year's eve with a difference. It was an extremely emotional event, when a housing society in suburban Mumbai decided to usher in 2009 by remembering and felicitating the heroes of 26/11.
The managing committees of Evershine Millenium Paradise Phase I, in Kandivli East, in Mumbai's western suburbs, decided not to have the usual evening of fun and frolic and instead remember the courage of martyred policemen and the heroes who saved the day for Mumbai, by inviting their families.
It seemed an impossible task given the time left and the hesitation of the families and the heroes themselves to come into the limelight.
Image: Vandana Patne, braveheart Tukaram Ombale's daughter, being felicitated on December 31, 2008.
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