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A few good Fellows

                           A typical Saturday for me starts a little after  10 AM , when the slumbersome celebration begins,  marking the arrival of the weekend.  I would quite easily convince myself that this break was well deserved and hard earned. (Despite circumstantial evidence suggesting the contrary.) This Saturday though, I volunteered to wake up early and try to be of some use to people doing important work in our country. The Fellows of Teach for India(TFI) Chennai,  were hosting a  Cultural /Sports day for the Primary School kids they taught and had invited volunteers to come and help manage the 800 kids  they were expecting from schools all over the city .  Chennai Students Kondattam or CSK was what they were calling the event and that's where I was headed.                              It wasn't...