NEW DELHI—Each of these people saw COVID-19 closely—they had either suffered as a victim or they had a friend or family member suffering during India’s first or second wave. Each of them decided to not let depression beat them and instead to cook for those in need of home-cooked, nutritious meals. Ankita Sahay, a 29-year-old management professional from India’s IT city, Bangalore, witnessed her cousin suffering during COVID’s second wave in April and started serving her home-cooked meals. The cousin was bedridden, alone, and in quarantine. Sahay then realized that there are others in the city in quarantine or without housemaids or sick senior citizens who have no support during the lockdown. She started reaching out on social media with her volunteer, free service of home-cooked food on April 26. Today she’s supported by 45 volunteers who have an outreach throughout the city and have already served 1500 meals. Sahay …