It is 2 in the afternoon and a car comes to a screeching halt in Vasant Kunj's Green Avenue Street. Seeing the car, a pack of stray dogs make a beeline for the red vehicle. It is their saviour, Achala Sharma, the lady who feeds dogs and caresses them with love and affection. She along with her family feeds 800 destitute dogs in Delhi.

Her love affair with dogs began when she was in a boarding school in Bhopal, where she took a couple of dogs under her care.

Achal also had a brief stint as a nurse in Saddam Hospital in Iraq during the Gulf War, post which she returned to India.

She used to come and play tennis in Vasant Kunj; that's where she found an abandoned stray dog with her litter of pups. She began feeding them and thus began her love affair with dogs.