<p>A year ago, when Covid-19 became a global pandemic, everyone across countries, became equally vulnerable. Millions got infected and scores of the others lived with the anxiety of getting infected. </p>.<p>It was in the midst of this situation that the floodgates of the virtues held high through the ages were opened. As the suffering multitude was beginning to be submerged in the calamity, others better placed rose like the waves of a tsunami to extend their help. They reached out in large numbers from every nook and cranny. In our own country Good Samaritans rushed to the highways to quench the thirst and feed the hunger of those trudging unimaginable miles in the sweltering summer heat to reach their home towns during the lockdown. Corona warriors were out in the open carrying food and buying medicines for the elderly and the sick. </p>.<p>Doctors and nurses found a fresh calling to their vocation, one that demanded them to put their own lives in the back burner and to care for the infected jeopardizing their well-being. They dared and risked their very lives in treating the infected, several selflessly succumbing to the contagion in the process. Many landlords waived the rent of their tenants who had lost their jobs. Several ordinary individuals continued paying salaries to their domestic help, drivers and cooks even if they could not render their services. Thousands and thousands of others found a new purpose to their lives working from home and living in isolation, a purpose in being benevolent to all; a purpose that was born out of gratitude for life’s many unseen blessings now wholly visible in the wake of a pandemic. </p>.<p>It was these incredible acts of goodness and kindness that eventually saw the masses of one of the world’s most populous countries tide through what can be termed as one of the darkest periods in the history of modern India. A year after the onset of Covid-19, we bemoan the grave misfortunes that fell on us for no obvious fault of ours. We lament the inexplicable ways in which our lives have been morphed. Yet, we salute the human spirit that braved the catastrophe and shone with kindness, illuminating the dark days of the pandemic through the last one year. </p>
<p>A year ago, when Covid-19 became a global pandemic, everyone across countries, became equally vulnerable. Millions got infected and scores of the others lived with the anxiety of getting infected. </p>.<p>It was in the midst of this situation that the floodgates of the virtues held high through the ages were opened. As the suffering multitude was beginning to be submerged in the calamity, others better placed rose like the waves of a tsunami to extend their help. They reached out in large numbers from every nook and cranny. In our own country Good Samaritans rushed to the highways to quench the thirst and feed the hunger of those trudging unimaginable miles in the sweltering summer heat to reach their home towns during the lockdown. Corona warriors were out in the open carrying food and buying medicines for the elderly and the sick. </p>.<p>Doctors and nurses found a fresh calling to their vocation, one that demanded them to put their own lives in the back burner and to care for the infected jeopardizing their well-being. They dared and risked their very lives in treating the infected, several selflessly succumbing to the contagion in the process. Many landlords waived the rent of their tenants who had lost their jobs. Several ordinary individuals continued paying salaries to their domestic help, drivers and cooks even if they could not render their services. Thousands and thousands of others found a new purpose to their lives working from home and living in isolation, a purpose in being benevolent to all; a purpose that was born out of gratitude for life’s many unseen blessings now wholly visible in the wake of a pandemic. </p>.<p>It was these incredible acts of goodness and kindness that eventually saw the masses of one of the world’s most populous countries tide through what can be termed as one of the darkest periods in the history of modern India. A year after the onset of Covid-19, we bemoan the grave misfortunes that fell on us for no obvious fault of ours. We lament the inexplicable ways in which our lives have been morphed. Yet, we salute the human spirit that braved the catastrophe and shone with kindness, illuminating the dark days of the pandemic through the last one year. </p>