During the COVID-19 pandemic in India, she assisted in the Vande Bharat Mission that transported oxygen concentrators from China and Hong Kong to several Indian cities.
[1][2] Having listened to stories of her parents growing up in Ashoknagar in North 24 Parganas, where there are World War II hangars, she aspired to becoming a pilot.
[4] That year, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she helped evacuate around 800 Indian students from the borders of Poland and Hungary as part of Operation Ganga.
When you see people who've made it through after walking for miles in sub-zero temperatures without food, shelter or support, you realise how trivial most of our everyday problems are.
"[3] On returning to Kolkata, her story was widely told on social media in India, and she received favourable comments from police officials, politicians, journalists, and the cricketer Sourav Ganguly.