Like any anxious mother, Nilufer Mistry was excited watching from the sidelines her twin daughters Suruchi and Suniti playing a football match for Convent of Jesus and Mary School (Fort). Nilufer jumped with joy when Suruchi scored the first goal which inspired her school to a 4-0 win over St Joseph's (Malad) in a MSSA girls' U-16 Div-II pre-quarter-final play-off at Azad Maidan yesterday. Shloka Gupta, Mariya Cementwala and Sakshi Jain scored the other three goals for the winners.

A close bond
The close bonding between Nilufer and her girls, 14, proves that love has no boundaries — Nilufer, a spinster, is very close to her adopted daughters. "I was the only child to my parents. Since, I am unmarried, and after my dad passed away, I decided to adopt. It was like a blessing when the two girls came into my life. They were three years and six months old when I took them under my care from Orissa in 2008. I feel very privileged to be the mother of two beautiful girls," said Nilufer, a freelance Japanese interpreter and tourist guide, who has put her career on hold to look after her daughters.