Actor Richa Chadha, who is also known for her interest in social issues, has started a new community-based initiative to celebrate ordinary people doing extraordinary things. The idea came to her when she heard a story about a thief who returned the medicines he had stolen with a simple note that read ‘Sorry I didn’t know these are Corona medicines’.

“I was moved that a person, who’d stolen something in desperation had so much heart and integrity that they returned it. I don’t want to tell people to ‘be positive’ and ignore the painful reality of pain, trauma, and loss. That is nothing but toxic positivity,” she said in a statement.

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The social media initiative titled Kindry will talk about incidents actually happening around us that don’t get amplified as much as they ought to.

“ People also deserve to hear stories of real-life heroes. We will start small and we hope to build a community or strengthen existing ones. The idea is to celebrate unsung heroes who you read about only in passing. While responding to SOS appeals on social media, I realized ordinary citizens are working day and night to procure life-saving drugs, beds, oxygen for people they’ve never met.

“We have seen a truly bipartisan effort, where temporarily people have forgotten even their ideological difference and come through to help each other. This gives me hope and I want to share these hopeful stories which are rooted in reality. We must deliberately amplify the good, to ease the pain of real news. It is clear that what will see us through this phase is the kindness of strangers,” she said.

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She has tied up with family friend Krishan Jagota for the initiative.

Workwise, Richa was last seen in ‘Madam Chief Minister’ that was released digitally.