The Silent Hero of Suburban Bengaluru: How One Man’s Act of Kindness Rescued an Entire Apartment Complex
Bengaluru | Special Report | VrlNewsBox It was an unusually warm Tuesday evening in the Rajarajeshwari Nagar area of Bengaluru. The local residents of Vrindavan Enclave —a relatively quiet apartment complex with 84 flats—were settling into their daily routines. Children were playing badminton in the basement, mothers chatting near the lift, and several residents were glued to the India vs. Australia cricket match on TV. What none of them knew was that the building was minutes away from a potentially disastrous gas leak explosion. A Whiff That Saved Lives Ramesh Naik, a 42-year-old technician working night shifts for a local cable company, had just returned from a long, tiring day. As he climbed the staircase to his third-floor flat—he preferred it over the elevator for fitness reasons—he noticed a faint but unusual smell. "It was like LPG, but not too strong," he told VrlNewsBox . "At first, I thought someone had just switched off their stove." But as he pas...