wearing new clothes partying spending on scrumptious food and festivities there was one man who busied himself attending to the pain of some helpless souls meet raju bhasker the founder of pet luck animal rehab centre who spent this navratri rescuing ailing and abandoned animals and giving them a new home among them was oneyearold tara who was rescued right in the middle of dasara festivities she was severely malnourished devoid of food and water and badly wounded she was recovered from the streets of erragaddawhat breaks our heart is that people passing by all busy with their festivities chose to ignore such a painful sight leaving her to die on the streets shared a volunteer noor ainy who wrote to toi about bhasker popular as raju sir among them luckily she was spotted by one of our volunteers and raju sir rushed to the site tara is under iv fluids now and recuperating she said adding how bhasker works through all festivals and sometimes loses tracks of time while attending to these animals but now it is getting difficult for a man to singlehandedly run the shelter that houses 84 babies we hope more people come forward to help physically and monetarily to keep the place going noor said wardrobe for all a resident of a s rao nagar parimala tadas decided not to buy any new clothes and accessories for herself this festive season instead she cleaned out her cupboards at home and made a pile of old bedsheets leather purses tv covers table spreads and teapoy covers lac and stone bangles imitation jewellery sets old sarees and dresses i gave my apartments watchman some bed sheets since he doubles up as our ironing man and is always in need of these things then i gave my domestic help my bangles purses jewellery sets she was so happy that it made me smile i am sure she will share the happiness with her granddaughters said tadas who even donated some of her belongings to an old age home if thats not enough tadas also organised an anna danam at house for all the support staff these small things always brings greater happiness in life she said new shoes happy feet a regular at the jasmine home for girls on the city outskirts dr ashima sharma and her husband decided to carry some festive cheer with them this time around as they packed 36 pairs of brandnew sports shoes for the 36 girls all orphans living on campus i see everybody brings them dresses blankets school bags but they are always in ordinary chappals so we decided to give them shoes so that they can wear them and walk into a bright future said dr sharma professor at the department of emergency medicine nims the shoes were distributed on the occasion of the international day for the girl child october 11 which incidentally was right in the middle of navratri every girl there