Returning home from an after-dinner walk, Melwyn Kunder, a 41- year old Mumbai executive, sees his apartment building's watchman waving his arms, trying to ward off mosquitoes. Kunder runs up to his first-floor flat and returns with a tube of Odomos mosquito repellant. "This should help" he says, handling over the ointment to the grateful watchman. As Kunder leaves, smiling, he thinks about an elderly man called Vasant Kalbag who's one big reason for this little act of kindness.
Not far away, in another part of Mumbai, the Easwarans' maid hasn't showed up. Not wanting her mother to do all the housework, 15-yr old Amrutha Easwaran washes the dishes and irons the clothes.
"Until last year, Amrutha never helped out with these cores." says her mother, Padmini. "But now she's constantly helping people. After she learned of a teenaged girl having cancer, Amrutha spent a lot of time on phone talking to her and cheering her up."
"But," Amrutha is quick to point out, " it wasn't like this until Vasant Uncle visited our school."
Vasant Kalbag is a grey haired, soft spoken 78 year old former laboratory equipment manufacturer who has taken upon himself the task of encouraging people to be kind."Doing small, selfless acts," he believes,"not only helps others - it rejuvenates us by boosting our health and longevity."
He has started his own organisation - Kindness Unlimited (KU) and built a website named rebuildindia.org
This site is totally free to register and provides with endless oppurtunities to everybody to help rebuild India.
Kalbag himself puts, "There is nothing as truly fulfilling as kindness."
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