A MODERN-DAY MIRACLE – Did the City of Dreams just find its own Good Sam?

 

A few days back, while scrolling through the diverse range of content that Netflix has to offer, a movie by the name of “Good Sam” caught my eye. Set in the backdrop of the bustling city of New York, this movie piece is about a TV reporter who finds herself caught in the middle of mysterious, apparently disconnected 100000-dollar donations across the city. Going by the name of “Good Sam”, this new age samaritan was found to give away a substantial amount of wealth, each time he decided to donate!

So, you can imagine my surprise when I stumbled upon a similar story in one of the leading newspaper dailies here in India. A 61-year-old female resident of Mumbai, India, has reportedly donated her ancestral property worth 120 crores (roughly, USD 16 million) to the Tata Memorial Hospital! The latter happens to be India’s largest cancer hospital.

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In an age where we and our actions are governed by materialistic and worldly pleasures, this news piece definitely comes in like a breath of fresh air. In an era, where people think not twice, not thrice, but multiple times before giving alms to a roadside beggar, this new-age samaritan breezes in and gives away prime Mumbai real-estate without a flicker of second thought!

So, what exactly fuelled her selfless act?

To put it in a word, it was empathy. As she narrates it, as a child, she used to witness the woeful conditions of patients, waiting for hours together outside the Tata Memorial Hospital, - just to get treated. Being an only child of a grounded Gujarati father and a Parsi mother and having inherited 30,000 square feet of property, the best way she saw fit to put this land to use was to give it away to the Tata Memorial Hospital and facilitate the construction of an additional chemotherapy centre.

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Thanks to the city of dreams’ own Good Sam, the hospital will now be able to open a brand-new chemotherapy wing which will pave the way for the treatment of thousands of cancer patients. And who knows, this mysterious do-gooder might have just laid the foundation stone for large scale research and development in the domain of cancer – thus also paving the way to alter the lives of people who suffer from this lethal disease.

In a world where greed and selfishness are slowly taking over the human cognition, reading and knowing about such an act of selflessness and empathy only restores one’s faith in humanity. After all, not a single soul till date, has become poor, by giving. What do YOU think?