18 bags and boxes of kindness and counting
The Hindu
A gated community adds the joy of giving to its Deepavali celebrations. It is running a clothes collection drive that ends today
A community aged around two as on date is akin to a corporate house with half its members onboarded during the pandemic. There could not have been enough “water-cooler conversations” to shape a helpful “team culture”.
Residents of Trellis South, a gated community on Arcot Road in Vadapalani, has torn this assumption apart driving a coach and horses through it, and one may add, transporting “bags of clothes” to the needy in the process.
For a community that has spent much of its life behind closed doors, sheltering in place and following COVID-19 SOPs, its members have been hugely impressive as they go about promoting a cause with the synchronicity of rhythmic group-gymnasts.
Around 440 MBBS graduates of 2021 are not required to undergo one year of compulsory rural service as per the bond signed by them while joining the medical course through government-quota seats in 2015 as the High Court of Karnataka has said the law, enacted in 2012 for mandatory rural service, remained unenforced for 10 years as it was published in the official gazette only in July 2022.