New Delhi: Seventeen children have been awarded the National Bravery Award 2006 for their exemplary show of courage.
This year's bravery award winners are spirited and fearless. Ratul Chandra Rabha from Assam chased ULFA militants out of his village and overpowered one of them before getting him arrested. All this after he saw them killing his teacher outside his school.
"I wasn't scared at all. In fact I didn't know what fear was and I still don't know what fear is."
However, all the awards this year are not for chasing militants away. Minnati didn't capture millitants or save lives. She is being given the award for standing up to a society that follows age-old traditions and irrational logic.
The 13-year-old from Orissa challenged the archaic tribal tradition that allows men to marry any woman, even a minor. Minnati ran away from her family and the 60-year-old man who forcibly put vermilion on her forehead and declared himself her husband.
After spending seven days in the jungle alone, Minnati managed to lodge a police complaint against her family and the man. They were arrested.
And then there's the budding scientist from Mumbai, Sanmesh Kalyanpur. Sanmesh's is being honoured for being brave enough to jump into a flooded gutter to save his little sister from drowning.
The 14-year-old aeronautics aspirant says that his baby sister, Sanjana, is more precious to him than his own life and one rainy afternoon when she fell into a flooded gutter while coming back from school, he didn't hesitate for even a second and jumped into the water after her to save her.
These three champs are among seventeen others who've proved that age is no barrier and that if you're determined, impossible is nothing.
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