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Publisher’s Note

From Glamour Superstar to

Florence Nightingale

Where do I begin? Akola, Gondia and Solapur. The most important
To tell the story of how great a love can be fact is that none of these hospitals turn back a single
The sweet love story that is older than the sea patient for lack of funds. It is her way of giving
The simple truth about the love she brings to me back.
Where do I start? It takes her one-and-a-half hours from home to
- Andy Williams, Love story reach the hospital and around the same time on her
way back. She starts working in the car, a secretary
In the 1980s, the movie Love Story was a rage fixes meetings, calls and the agenda for the day.
amongst the youth and this title song was hymn Besides the administrative decisions, there are
sung by lovers to their beloveds. The Love Story of emotional issues that she deals with - people who
Tina Munim and Anil Ambani was the stuff that come to her for help. As she says, on my return
movies are made of. There was no doubt that when once I cross the sealink, I switch off and from there
Tina and Anil walked into any room, there was a on, I am a normal Gujarati housewife, concerned
hush in the party and all eyes were on this couple. about my family, husband and kids. I am giving
I worked with Tina to set up India’s biggest art instructions to the Maharaj for their food and
show – The Harmony Show. It was India’s premier taking care of all the mundane things that every
art event that appeared with regularity for 12 years, homemaker manages.
every March. Through all the rough and tumble of her journey,
I would affectionately call her Tina Turner. When Tina has held on to her dignity with impeccable
she asked why, I said because when Tina walks grace and has been a pillar of strength to her family.
into the room all heads turn. As they say, love is truly eternal.
God chooses some people for a role that he crafts Indeed.
for them; and from a glamorous superstar Tina
transformed into a Florence Nightingale, working
to alleviate the misery of people. Tina’s journey is
an extraordinary series of accomplishments. The
Kokilaben Hospital now also has a branch in Navi Vickram Sethi
Mumbai and Indore, plus cancer care centres in Publisher and Editor-in-Chief

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