Covid-19: Bengal’s very own Santa Claus secretly providing food packets to poor
Hindustan TimesFor the past two weeks, something strange has been happening every night, in villages on the fringes of Santiniketan in Bolpur town of Bengal’s Birbhum district. The food packets that Shyamal Maji leaves for those affected by the Covid-19 outbreak contains around two kilos of rice, potatoes, some vegetables, cooking oil, salt, puffed rice and a soap. Yet for the past two weeks, Maji and his flock of students - all from Bolpur and its environs - have been providing food to helpless people amid the ongoing lockdown due to Covid-19 disease across the nation. The recipients of Maji’s kindness are too poor to afford mobiles themselves, but have told their neighbours that Maji’s food packets are like godsends. It gives me a great sense of satisfaction to do so, but we would prefer to remain in the shadows and work from behind the wings,” said Taraknath Das, a student on Maji’s team.
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