Arriving with just hope and a suitcase, an Andaman man’s Bengaluru journey turned fear into love, cherishing newfound friendships and life’s simple joys.
For five years now, real life hero Chandra Kishore Patil from Nashik has been guarding the Godavari by stopping people from dumping their garbage into the river.
“He struggled for years; in fact, he was pushing himself very hard since Class 8. I knew the amount of stress my child went through. In January, he had almost reached a breaking point, but he turned things around and gave the exam more than 100 per cent. So, when the results came out, my first reaction was relief."
“The man was probably in his early 40s, and you could tell that he had a family waiting for him at home. I genuinely wanted that man to leave my house with a smile that was not because he hadn’t received abuse, but because he had been appreciated.”