Helping Hand

Likewise,she has set up an organisation here and together with her homoeopath brother and other members of the organisation,she gives out free treatment to hundreds of poor people. She comes down from the US twice a year and attends these health camps. “It is through an integration of homoeopathy,yoga and diet control that I have spread wellness among my patients in America and want to duplicate the model here as well. People here would need more of such holistic treatments that are far more affordable,” she said.

Once here,and out of her routine which she follows very strictly in the US,she would indulge in several other socially relevant works. “Once she was on her way to her native village. She had bought a few dozen saris. She stopped midway at random at a village where she saw some poor village women working. She asked them to fall in a line and distributed the saris among them. They were pleasantly surprised to receive the gifts from a complete stranger,” said a senior member of the organisation who was there with her that day.

Now,after gaining fame worldwide,she wants to put up an institute and an old-age home in Nandigram,where she finds the political turmoil as a major impediment. “It breaks my heart to see the sufferings of people in Nandigram. We have a piece of land and building spread over about one acre and I want a health clinic and an old-age home to be put up there but there are too many issues involved. The political instability there is definitely an issue and my health condition would not permit me to deal with those tensions,” she said,adding that she would donate the land to person or NGO which would take initiative in giving shape to her dream. “I will be more than happy if any NGO or individual takes up the cause. I will come regularly from the US to put up health camps here,” Basak said.