Chennai: Among tales of humanity emerging from rain-battered Chennai is a story of a Hindu couple that named their newborn after a Muslim who came to their rescue when the crisis blew them over.

Chitra and Mohan of Urapakkam, which suffered one of the worst flooding in the city’s southern neighbourhood, named their daughter Yunus after the MBA graduate, who rescued the pregnant woman from neck-deep waters and moved her to a hospital. The couple thanked him by naming their daughter after him, with the businessman now promising to take care of Yunus’s educational expenses.