Key Points
Matthew Spacie was a teenager when on a December night tonnes of methyl isocyanate spilled into the air from the Union Carbide plant killing thousands and leaving hundreds of thousands of others affected..
There was a shortage of doctors so the young Spacie spent time drawing Xs on the backs of tubercular patients and injecting them with such antibiotics as were available..
I didnt want to be doing something that I didnt enjoy myself and one day, out of nowhere, came the idea that I could teach these young men rugby...
The young men off the street were a useful addition and the Bombay Gym tried its best to be as supportive as it could, given its clienteles desire to see only its own kind of person...
But it is the 85,000 young Indians who have found jobs in the grey-collar sector, in call centres and in hospitality for instance, who have made the transition from poverty that makes it all worthwhile...
