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2006: An Evening with Shobna Gulati (Our Sunita)

Ms. Gulati was born in Oldham, Lancashire, England.

Sunita Parekh arrived on the Street in 2001, fleeing from an arranged marriage and sought solace with her friend and boss Dev Alahan. Sunita settled on the street, where she was employed as shopkeeper in Coronation Street's Corner Shop.

Her relationships on the street included Duggie Ferguson and Ciaran McCarthy, to whom she was engaged, and then jilted at the altar. Soon after this Sunita discovered she had a brain tumour. As she fought her way back to health, Sunita was touched by how much love and affection Dev gave her - despite the fact he was engaged to solicitor Maya Sharma.

With Dev confessing his love for Sunita, Maya sought revenge on them by planning to frame Sunita for bigamy on her wedding day to Dev. Then culminating with Maya blowing up Dev's Shops, and ultimately leaving Sunita and Dev to die in the Coronation Street shop. Saved by Charlie and Ciaran from this ordeal, it has brought them closer.

At the time of our event, Sunita and Dev were having to deal with devious Charlie and his poisoning of their relationship with Rovers return bar manager Shelley Unwin.

Ms Gulati is involved with Plan UK, Plan is an international humanitarian organization exclusively helping children. They have helped children in need in 45 developing countries. Shobna's prime involvement with the organization is child sponsorship

Christmas of 2004 Ms. Gulati went to India for the holidays and was there when the Tsunami happened. She returned home to the UK but was so moved by what had happened out there that she returned to see for herself first hand the devastation that had happened and to offer any help she could. "Make Poverty History" white bands that were made for last years Rakhi Day, was another cause that Ms. Gulati has given her support to.

Ms. Gulati appeared in "Soapstar Superstar", an "American Idol" style reality show. Ms. Gulati has made stage appearances in "Dancing Within Walls" and "Crazy Lady". Ms. Gulati has also made television appearances in; Shadowscan, Wetty Hainthropp (sic) Investigates, Eastender, and the critically acclaimed Dinner Ladies.

See Diane's Web Page for more about this event with a link to some photos.