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The world needs more positive pictures during the #COVID19 lockdown, not less #WordlessWednesday

I read recently that certain Indian celebrities were trolled and even made to apologize for posting pictures of themselves enjoying with their children / leading a life of privilege while millions were suffering during this horrible COVID19 lockdown. Talking to friends about it, I realized that even they had stopped posting happy pictures of food and their family life because they were hurt by comments pointing out how others were suffering right now.

I disagree with that line of thought.

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Kindness in the times of #COVID19 : Indian Edition

As the title explains, here are some lovely examples of kindness from people across India during these harsh times of the corona virus lockdown.

Constable B.Amareswari works as a person security to Telangana Governor. Her duty hours are 4rm 6am-9pm, next day rest. On her off, she stiches masks out of blouse pieces n distributes it to houses(3 per head). So far, she has stiched 3000 masks but says her target is 5000.

Kindness in the time of #COVID19

Across the world, the corona virus has spread its tentacles, shutting down countries, killing lakhs of innocent people and leaving millions more severely affected. During these hard times, it is worth it to take a step back from all the pain and sorrow and admire the kindness that has also come to the fore. To remind ourselves that, irrespective of our creed or religion, there are people doing selfless good deeds all over the world right now.

Here are 10 moments of kindness during this global...

Nurse Adopts Autistic Man So He Can Receive Heart Transplant

Every year, across the world, nurses save millions of lives. And still, Lori Wood's story stands out.


Lori, an ICU nurse at Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Georgia met Jonathan Pinkard, a 27 year old man with autism who needed an urgent heart transplant. Unfortunately, his grandmother had passed away and he had no other stable legal guardian, a requisite for patients who undergo organ donation so that they have someone to look after them in the immediate post-operative period.
For 4 months,...

Auto Driver Gives Free Rides to Cancer Patients and their Families

Vinod Kumar KV is not your ordinary auto rickshaw driver. You can spot his vehicle from a distance - the words 'Cancer Care for Life' are written on top, in bright red. For the last eight years, Vinod has been ferrying cancer patients and their relatives for free in Trivandrum to the Regional Cancer Centre (RCC).


This unique journey began for Vinod after he was a patient in the hospital himself, following his second heart attack. He used to work as a technician of electronic gadgets back then...

Unexpected gestures of Kindness

When parents of kids at Lakewood Elementary School in Dallas found out that the beloved crossing guard (the man assigned to keep their children safe as they walk to and from school) was struggling financially after his wife got sick and his car was repossessed, they decided to do more.
Guard Nathaniel Kendrick was annoyed to see some dads park a car right in the middle of the street in front of the school and asked them to move it. The dads refused, however.
"It's your car. So you get it out of...

Service Exchanges Messages of Kindness Between Strangers #WATWB

Though we have more potential to be connected to people across the world than ever before thanks to technology, the sad truth is that the exact opposite has occurred with people finding themselves more isolated and lonely, distancing themselves emotionally from the real world long before COVID arrived.
A simple message may hold the key to making a difference.


Text for Humanity, the world's first texting switchboard, works on the simple principle of sending a text message of kindness to a number...

Lottery Seller Donates 10,000 Pots worth Lakhs to Ensure Birds Have Water to Drink

Over the last 2 years, 70 year old Sreeman Narayanan has been on a unique mission. Living in a tiny village called Muppathadam near the infamous Eloor-Edayar industrial belt (often in the news for pollution of the Periyar river) in Ernakulam, the man is a wholesale lottery ticket seller. But he is also so much more.


A Gandhian by nature, he works hard to ensure even the birds around him do not suffer from the scorching summers of Kerala. To do this, he has spent Rs 6 lakh from his own pocket...

Children are Dispelling Loneliness of the Elderly Through the Simple Act of Reading

A simple initative started in UK has proved to be a great game changer in fighting the loneliness that the elderly face. 


Started in 2017, the 'Reading Friends' programme aims to connect and engage with people who are vulnerable and isolated in the country, with an extra focus on people with dementia, vision problems and those requiring carers. They believe that creative and cultural participation makes the highest contribution to an older person's well-being. The project is evidence...

Politician pays off medical bills of man who racially targeted him

Online hatred and bigotry continues to rise every day, spreading more virulently than the novel coronavirus while sadly having no possibility of a cure till date. And while there may not be a vaccine for the wholesale bigotry one witnesses, a little kindness can go a long way as a local politician showed.


Attorney Qasim Rashid is a Democrat running for U.S. Representative in the first district of Virginia. He had been on the receiving end of several anti-Muslim racist messages from 66 year old...