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Kolkata’s ‘street kids’ find solace on the field

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The Rugby Paper Team
20 December 2020

Brendan Gallagher recalls his eye-opening trip to Kolkata in 2000 to meet the Future Hope team

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PICTURES: Karen Davies

It was 20 years ago this Christmas week that I found myself acting as sponge man and chief bottle washer to a bunch of remarkable Indian youngsters in Colombo where, against all the odds, they were representing India in the Asian U19 Rugby championships.
All bar two of them – guest players from Mumbai –were “street kids” from Kolkata which has become almost a cliche...

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