AMAZING tales of nine real-life Indian heroes
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Last updated on: December 15, 2011 17:27 IST
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Each year for 20 years now Godfrey Phillips has been giving out awards for various acts of bravery. These are the winners of the Maharashtra-Chhattisgarh-Goa zone.
One may never really know what it is that drives people to put their lives at risk so they can save someone else's.
Why, for instance, did Pritam Shinde jump into a blazing office building when he had little or no hope of returning alive or did 11-year-old Kiran Bhatt dived into an overflowing canal to save his brother from drowning despite not knowing how to swim?
What were Reuben Fernandes and Keenan Sentos thinking when they took on a mob of unruly eve teasers or Lajja Sharma who fought a miscreant single-handedly just so she could protect her fellow passengers she'd never met before?
These are real-life stories of everyday people -- people not quite different from us -- who stood up for those in distress.
Over the next nine pages you will find brief accounts of their inspirational stories that are part of the citations handed to them by the team of Godfrey Phillips Bravery Awards. Read on.
A devastating fire had broken out on the 9th floor of Lokmat Bhavan in Nagpur. The fire brigade was called but it could not reach beyond the 4th floor.
There were people trapped on different floors of the 13-storey building. The fire was spreading fast. There was no time to waste.
Pritam Shinde appeared on the scene and showing unparalleled courage, he single-handedly rescued seven persons from the 11th floor of the building.
It was not easy reaching there. But he found his way through smoke and carried two persons down with him.
He led another five to safety and ensured that each of them was rushed to hospital for treatment.
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