On February 21, 2020, in a district in Northeast Delhi, riots broke out because of a confrontation between crowds protesting — for and against — the recently passed Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019. The situation soon intensified into a communal altercation, causing loss of lives and property and, consequently, displaced many. As a response, several civil society organisations and individuals came together to help rehabilitate riot victims: relocating them to safer areas, providing help with the paperwork at the hospital, and filing police complaints for damage to property, personal effects, and livelihood. From initially providing techno-legal support, the restoration expanded to caring for their mental and emotional well-being, mediating between communities, and collecting funds to restore lost livelihoods. Soon, these efforts were interrupted when a series of lockdowns were announced on March 24, 2020, to control the spread of the COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic. In this paper, I underscore respondents' imperatives as they continued to engage in caregiving activities as they navigated their way through social distancing and restricted movement during the lockdowns. Here, I focus on the notion of "urge" and the emotions surrounding it, which takes a compulsive tone in their articulations. Circulation of phone numbers during the lockdown also expanded the scope of the efforts to the include stranded migrant workers seeking to be transported to their homes. With in-depth interviews of six such volunteers, I examine“urge” and situate it within the larger socio-political milieu of the ethics and politics of care. This work intends to understand how caregivers reminisce and recall the act of caring as an emotional and ethical practice and a political act. I also contemplate the limit of how individuals respond from and to an emotional dimension of contemporary crises, the contradictions they face, and the implications such responses have for transcending crises.