<p>This is one lost-and-found story that turned all the more sweet because of the flicker of hope it brought along with the new year.</p>.<p>On Monday night, Sonali R (name changed on request) was partying with her friends in Koramangala. The New Year’s Eve celebrations soon gave way to shock.</p>.<p>The teenager, while returning home with three of her friends, realised that she had lost her bag — containing her Dell laptop, charger, wallet that had credit cards, cash and an expensive mobile phone.</p>.<p>A miserable beginning, she thought.</p>.<p>It could have been, had it not for Rajendra and Sreedevi, a vegetable-vendor couple on a two-wheeler who spotted the bag while passing through Wind Tunnel Road.</p>.<p>Sonali, her friends and family were repeatedly calling on the mobile phone inside the bag when the bike-borne duo briefly stopped on the way to adjust their seating, and found the bag.</p>.<p>“I took the call and it was the girl’s father. We mentioned our location and later in the night, we handed over the bag to the girl’s father,” said Rajendra.</p>.<p>“It was, in fact, a good beginning to the new year. Sonali thought she had lost all her valuables. It was sheer luck that a good Samaritan like Rajendra and wife returned her belongings. We don’t see such things happening every day. If not for them, she would have lost a lot of money,” said a friend who had accompanied Sonali.</p>.<p>“A lot of people prey on others for money. This act on a day like this has reinforced our faith in mankind,” said the girl’s father.</p>
<p>This is one lost-and-found story that turned all the more sweet because of the flicker of hope it brought along with the new year.</p>.<p>On Monday night, Sonali R (name changed on request) was partying with her friends in Koramangala. The New Year’s Eve celebrations soon gave way to shock.</p>.<p>The teenager, while returning home with three of her friends, realised that she had lost her bag — containing her Dell laptop, charger, wallet that had credit cards, cash and an expensive mobile phone.</p>.<p>A miserable beginning, she thought.</p>.<p>It could have been, had it not for Rajendra and Sreedevi, a vegetable-vendor couple on a two-wheeler who spotted the bag while passing through Wind Tunnel Road.</p>.<p>Sonali, her friends and family were repeatedly calling on the mobile phone inside the bag when the bike-borne duo briefly stopped on the way to adjust their seating, and found the bag.</p>.<p>“I took the call and it was the girl’s father. We mentioned our location and later in the night, we handed over the bag to the girl’s father,” said Rajendra.</p>.<p>“It was, in fact, a good beginning to the new year. Sonali thought she had lost all her valuables. It was sheer luck that a good Samaritan like Rajendra and wife returned her belongings. We don’t see such things happening every day. If not for them, she would have lost a lot of money,” said a friend who had accompanied Sonali.</p>.<p>“A lot of people prey on others for money. This act on a day like this has reinforced our faith in mankind,” said the girl’s father.</p>
