By:
Subhash
K.
Jha,
IndiaFM
Thursday,
September
20,
2007
From
22
to
26
September
Shabana
will
be
joining
several
eminent
activists
from
world
over
to
head
for
the
UN
headquarters
in
New
York
to
plead
for
food
for
the
entire
globe.
These
activists
include
the
Brazilian
prime
minister
and
a
Nigerian
actor.
Assuming
her
adamant
activist's
stance
Shabana
asserts,
"It's
very
simple,
really.
Food
needs
to
be
put
on
everyone's
plate.
In
the
UN
General
Assembly
they
had
promised
that
by
2015
they'd
remove
hunger
from
the
world.
They
haven't
even
achieved
50
percent
of
that
target.
So
all
of
us
from
the
worldover
will
have
just
one
chant.
Put
food
on
everyone"s
plate."
Getting
more
serious
Shabana
says,
"How
can
we
think
of
making
progress
when
everyone
doesn't
get
enough
to
eat?
In
fact
people
are
still
dying
of
hunger.
After
I
finish
at
the
UN
General
Assembly
I'm
going
to
Yale
for
a
panel
discussion.
Finally
I'll
be
doing
a
panel
discussion
on
the
BBC
on
India"s
60
years
of
independence."
Shabana
spends
more
time
outside
the
country
than
she
does
at
home
these
days.
"In
any
case
my
home
is
being
renovated
and
is
in
a
shambles.
On
my
birthday
on
18
September
all
my
friends
were
huddled
together
in
one
room
in
one
corner
of
our
house."