Woman shares how strangers helped find her lost iPhone, starts Twitter thread capturing spirit of Mumbai

The now-viral thread prompted people to share their own encounters with kind strangers in Mumbai.

By: Trends Desk
New Delhi | Updated: July 4, 2023 08:41 AM IST

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Megacities like Mumbai are often in the news for high crime rates, crumbling infrastructure, and general apathy of city dwellers. Now, a Twitter thread is challenging this notion by showing how despite the general bleakness of Indian cities, one can find a glimmer of hope in strangers’ small acts of kindness.

On Sunday, Twitter user @historywali shared a long thread detailing how busy rickshaw drivers and a delivery person went out of their way to retrieve her lost phone. The lady ultimately found her iPhone through a Swiggy food delivery agent named Rahul Kumar who found it lying near Versova metro station and returned it to her.

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While concluding her tweet thread, @historywali wrote, “A few days ago, someone who has recently moved to the city had tweeted here asking why we love Bombay despite the shit infra, high rents, all of it. This is why. I am tweeting this thread from my phone which I lost this morning, to find again, thanks to Mumbai & her people.”

Her tweets prompted others to share similar instances they experienced in Mumbai.

Commenting on her tweets, a person wrote, “Similar thing happened to me at Azad Nagar Metro station. Phone slipped out of my pocket in the rickshaw I was in. I realised when the driver had already left. I waited 5-10 mins panicking and wondering what to do next. And he returned just to give my phone back. The good samaritan”.

Another person remarked, “I’ve dropped my passport in Mumbai, left a camera in a shop. Dropped money and every single time the people of Mumbai have helped. Despite what so many think, I genuinely believe it’s such a helpful and caring city ❤️🧿”.

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