The trying times of coronavirus pandemic captured some moments of camaraderie also as kindness went viral across the globe with friends and strangers pitching in to cheer up and help. As news and images of distraught men, women and children appeared in the media, good Samaritans geared up to do their bit to go the extra mile.

   One such heartwarming story came to light in the town of Bhuj in Gujarat in the wake of the pandemic. Take the case of a stranger, a foreigner lady professor from Finland.

   Marjaana Jauhola, lecturer in development studies at the University of Helsinki came to Gujarat for her academic research in March this year. Being an ethnographer, she is into research for about two years on the financial, social and psychological impact on the people and society of Kutch in the aftermath of the deadly earthquake of 2001 that hit Kutch badly. While she was in Bhuj this year, the lockdown was imposed and it was....