Kindness is a butterfly

When he was 18, Mayank Banerjee, the young CEO of a Bengaluru-based healthcare startup, went hitchhiking from China to France. Couchsurfing his way across continents for six months, he lived almost entirely on the generosity and kindness of strangers. Fast forward to a few years later. When the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit India hard, psychologist Divya Srivastava and her team at her wellness centre fielded calls and created free support groups for those who had found their lives upended by a ravaging pandemic. In 2020, friends Krithika and Ruchika started a sustainable, gender-fluid clothing and lifestyle brand…