Mumbai was drenched in heavy rains on 29th of August. It was the heaviest since 12 years i.e. 2005. People were stuck in offices and some were stranded on roads. Public transport was paralyzed and there was no way in which people could reach their homes.
Amidst this, there were some helpful souls who went out of the way to ensure people reach safely and face no issue in such a situation.
In fact, they restored faith in humanity with their good deeds. One of them was an Ola cab driver who crossed all levels of goodness to help a lady named Puja Vaish, who was stranded in heavy rains.
This driver Sikander Khan could have easily left, but instead, he chose to help her and make her comfortable. Puja was stuck in the cab near Parel’s Hindmata flyover for around 10 hours and this had made her quite impatient. What happened next and how the series of events unfolded will show you that good and selfless people still exist.
She shared this heartwarming experience on Facebook too; here’s her post…
“I just want to express gratitude and request you to reward my cab driver from this morning in whatever way you can. His name is Sikander Khan and he was exemplary in his humanity and his help during the flood situation in Mumbai today. We were stranded in the worst affected low lying area – Parel on Hindmata flyover for over 10 hours since 10 am. In this span of time, he gave me his umbrella when I decided to leave the cab and walk, and when I didn’t get anywhere due to the chest deep water, he called me to come back and sit in the cab. He assured me he would get me home safe once the flood receded and the traffic would move no matter how long it would take. Around afternoon, we had no food and he disappeared for an hour and came back completely drenched with a hot pizza, refused to let me pay anything for it. When it started getting dark by 8pm and I was panicking to get out and reach a hotel nearby (I didn’t want to spend the night stranded in a cab on the flyover), he left his cab, and held my hand as I literally swam to a hotel which was a kilometre away but it took us half an hour to reach. He refused to take any money, but finally accepted when I insisted. God bless this man, he would have had to wade back through the flood to get to his cab and is probably still stranded in the same spot. Hurray to Ola and hurray to the driver. Please reward/honour him in anyway you can!”
Click here to check the post directly on Facebook.
This has indeed made us say “WOW”. Such people are very few and the way she has narrated her experience shows that the world still has people who think for others before themselves.
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