By Kristan Bourestom

W hen an abyss opens in the earth beneath your feet, what do

you do? Give up and fall in? Scramble back from the
precipice in confusion? Retreat to a safer corner and ignore
the danger? For Namrata Sing Gujral that answer was an easy one.
Having been a teen model and raised in an “acting family,” Namrata
was finding success and fulfillment as an actor in television shows such as
The Agency and Passions and the Hindi film Kaante. She was also
charting new territory as a country music singer and starred in and 1a Minute®
produced the 2007 film Americanizing Shelly. Then the world broke
apart.
With family history of breast cancer Namrata had been a very
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diligent advocate for her own health. So she thought she would
have been better prepared to handle the news that she had
breast cancer. Yet it was a moment of utter, for lack of a better
word that could express the emotion with more intensity,
shock. Only weeks before she had a clean mammogram
and no signs of a problem. But thanks to an extremely
diligent radiologist her cancer was detected early.