For folks with friends and family in India, this is an agonizing time. We wake up early to news of an aunt who is sick, a friend who needs oxygen. We hear from a friend caring for his wife at home, another who has been up all night putting cold compress on her mother’s head.

Someone’s office manager has passed. Someone's father. Someone’s professor. Someone’s uncle. “Everything is collapsing,” a friend writes.

There are several lists of how to help. I've not vetted all these groups.

@LavanyaDJ has ID'd groups that can take donations from outside India: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10ca5YH5YUtp7Qe63sVNX1SlepQcvzc4RCwLhMBvTJyE/edit?fbclid=IwAR3udywEMGL5NUy5S7HNuaPV5WrcliWk-muq6gdgCQ1qFuUgPP1AGms4eFM

@ISASatBerkeley emailed a list, which includes @AIF and @giveIndia

@Give2Asia helps local NGOs

India recently tightened rules on Indian NGOs receiving donations from abroad. Details here: https://www.cafamerica.org/giving-to-india-compliance-with-the-newly-amended-fcra/#:~:text=the%20Local%20Context-,The%20Foreign%20Contribution%20Regulation%20Act%20(FCRA)%20is%20India's%20law%20regulating,from%20donors%20outside%20of%20India

Several Indian independent news sites are doing extraordinarily hard work, including @scroll_in @thenewsminute @thecaravanindia @thewire_in

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As the Indian night draws near and the day stretches on here, New Yorkers rejoice at being outdoors, maskless. On crowded sidewalks, there are loud open-jawed conversations, smokers, early happy hour drinkers.

The contrast can be hard to process.

By evening, India awakes and again come fresh cries for help on Twitter. Pictures of bodies waiting their turn at crematoriums. Updates from friends and family.

Birds and ambulances is all my colleague in Delhi, Jeffrey Gettleman, hears.

It’s what we heard here last year.