Pudukkottai (Tamil Nadu): While parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala are reeling under mass-scale floods, leading to a high death toll and displacing many, several have come forward to provide any assistance - they can - to get the flood-affected areas on their feet and moving.
As politicians, actors, army personnel, and many others are doing their bit, here's the story of a humble man, Ganesan, who has kick-started his fundraising drive from all across Pudukkottai to help the needy in flood- strangled Nilgris district and the neighbouring state of Kerala.
Ganesan (68), famously known '515 Ganesan', is the main troubleshooter in his area.
As a social worker, he had offered free rides to 2000 plus pregnant ladies in his car and is also credited of ferrying 6,000 corpses in his car, without even charging a single penny.