Hope can be found in unexpected places. Ritwik Ghosh, who works for one of the biggest investment fund firms in China, can vouch for it. Moved by the pain of members in his social circle back in India, Ghosh is on a mission to send help to people back home in the form of oxygen concentrators that are coming all the way from Shanghai.

It was in 2001 that Ghosh first discovered China, when he was a navigator of cargo ships that transported goods across the globe. Born to Bengali parents in the small town of Bokaro Thermal in Jharkhand [then Bihar], Ghosh says his background is humble. “My father was an engineer in Damodar Valley Corporation, along the Damodar river. He had a transferrable job. So, for the better part of my childhood, I was raised in Bokaro. After completing Class XII from Gomia’s finest institute, Pitts Modern School, I moved to Delhi to do an introductory course in the merchant navy,” Ghosh recalls, adding that he later moved to Singapore to complete his cadetship. While he briefly touched base in China, he only moved there in 2009, while studying for an MBA degree. “It has been over a decade [since he has been in China], but I visit India often.”