Meeting the Blaire,s

One day i had a sudden surprise when i got a phone call from somewhere. i was told that Cherie Blaire the then Prime Minister of U.K. was visiting Hyderabad and she would like to meet few feminist. On the day Cherie Blaire was top arrive in Hyderabad, I was picked up from the house at nine in the morning and we reached the Institute of Good Governance in Jubliee Hills. I found that there were other friends like Shanta, Sunita, Rukmani , Lalita who were there. It was a nice get together because we were all meeting each other after a long time and it was fun to catch up. There was a room next to our room where the staff of the kakatiya hotel was ready and theyw ere busy serving us what ever we wanted. it was a fun filled day where we kept sipping Coffee, tea and chatting. At eleven o, clock we were informed that the flight had landed and now they are coming out. We were given a minute to minute account like now they are out of the airport, their car is near the public school etc. This day gave us a glimpse on how hectivc the life of a well known and famous person was. However when Cherie Blaire came to the room she was an ordinary person like us who firt told us that she would like to phone and find our how her children were. She told us that she has been travelling for quite some time and was worried about her child who had cold. I think she was also the mother of a new born child at that time. We then went on to discuss a lot about feminism in India, our work, our research, our high's and lows when we work on women's issues, the frustration we feel and what we think are the constraints for women to be an equal member of the society. Tony Blaire and the then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Chandra Babu Naidu also joined in after a while. It was a wondeful meeting which will stay in my mind for a long time. I now hear that Cherie Blaire has published her autobiolgraphy and memoir, Speaking for Myself, where she talks her pregnancies and miscarriage to dealing with the royal family and her take on the relationship between her husband and Brown. She also discussess contraceptives, her children's conception, her breastfeeding, her miscarriage, her romance with her husband and her political views. I still have not read this book but I am sure this is going to be a very open book with littel day to day life interesting details with which she is concerned.