Nivedita Kanitkar from Pune, who swam to safety battling 20-foot-high waves, being offered sweets by her mother on her safe return back home on
December 30. The young girl, an employee of the Taj Exotica in the tiny island resort of
Maldives and an average swimmer, showed rare courage, cheating Asia's worst tsunami on record that has killed over 1,00,000 across
South Asia. — ANI
