true heroes

For the last 22 years, this man who runs a humble bhurji-pav stall in Old Tofkhana, Shivajinagar, has saved suicidal people from drowning. Apart from this, he has helped fish out 600 bodies from the Mula-Mutha rivers due to suicides or accidental deaths.

From the MP Cop who ran 1 km with a 10 kg bomb to save 400 students to the one who carried a pilgrim who was having a heart attack uphill for two kms on his back, this is a small tribute to our very own khaki heroes who go beyond their call of duty for their people.

A resident of Virar, Prakash Balu Patil had started the school drop and pickup facility only recently. He bought a van and would ferry children from home to school and back every single day.