MUMBAI: A few days before Ramzan Eid, Shaheen Jamadar’s phone started buzzing non-stop. A bunch of people from Dharavi were calling up to inquire where she had disappeared. It was festival time and they needed rations and clothes that she had been organising for them through an NGO ever since the lockdown began.
Jamadar, 38, had tested positive for Covid and had been hospitalised 12 days ago. But the fact that people wouldn’t be able to celebrate Eid kept gnawing at her and she got to work from her hospital bed. When the moon was sighted on Thursday night, ration kits had already reached the 170 families that had approached Jamadar for help.