bengaluru a college professor went out of his way to reunite a 67yearold man with his family members in the middle of a nationwide lockdown and also helped two young girls continue with their studiesprofessor vinay yadav head of department of hindi at bishop cotton womens christian college got in touch with several other individuals and organisations to assist these people in the last few months while he helped the senior citizen return home he also assisted his 14yearold granddaughter continue education seamlesslyit all began in april last week when yadav a resident of horamavu banaswadi noticed an old man aimlessly roaming around near his home the man asked yadav for help he looked troubled and lost he told me he had been fired from his job as a security guard and couldnt find his way back home yadav said adding that the man had no phone with himrealising that the man k krishnamurti was not mentally ready to explain where he had to go yadav offered him dinner and a place to stay at a temple next door i provided three meals and bedding to him for the next two weeks and then got to know he actually had a piece of paper with his wifes number on it said yadav when yadav called krishnamurtis wife kupamma she told him they had lost a son recently and since then her husband was mentally disturbed and would wander off without notice she also told him that they lived in anchepalya in rr nagar with lockdown in place yadav continued to look after krishnamurti and informed local cops about the situation he even added his own contact number and name to the paper that the man carriedthe next day yadav saw that krishnamurti had again wandered off and received a call from some strangers they told me they found krishnamurti and i requested them to either help him get back to me or drop him to his home in anchepalya thankfully a good samaritan had a car and agreed to drop him there said yadavkupamma called back yadav to thank him and later reached out to him for help she told me that she had rice but needed other essentials incidentally i was heading towards jnanabharathi campus in mayjune and decided to pay them a visit said yadavi carried a months ration with me and found that their 14yearold granddaughter was living with them her mother had remarried and she had nowhere to go kupamma said she needed some support for her granddaughter rachnas studies the girl was in grade 9 he saidwhen a friend mentioned about an initiative by a citybased company to sponsor a childs education yadav thought of rachna my friend amrit kaur asked me to identify a girl child for innomonk technologies initiative though they were looking for someone near bannerghatta they considered rachna after visiting her and seeing her condition said yadavsoon rachna was given a computer and amenities for a year yadav also got in