Cosmopolitan India

“When You Help Someone, You Are Able to Sleep Peacefully at Night… And That’s the Best Thing in Life”

“y father used to tell me that until you fall yourself or are down on luck, you don’t really think about making a difference. I was a very different person 10 years ago. I was a spoiled brat…but it all changed when I got stuck in Uttarakhand during the 2013 floods. I remember I hadn’t eaten for over four days and had to wait in line with hundreds of people for the military to drop food from helicopters. At that moment it hit me, that even though I had everything, I was helpless just like the others. That incident made me realise that

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