Dawn was the most reliable colleague I ever had. She was the paragon of commitment. If she took up a responsibility, she would go out of her way to perfect the output. We worked in the same department at Sawan Public School, Delhi. One of our many duties in that exclusively residential school was preparing students for such interschool competitions as debate, declamation, etc. Whenever I needed help with such tasks, I fell back on Dawn. Very few people are so entirely reliable. We were happy colleagues for over a decade doing a lot of things together like directing the English play for the school’s annual day, anchoring sports events, organising inter-house competitions related to our subject. There existed a rare camaraderie between us that made the tasks all too easy. There were moments when I thought she overestimated me because of which she suppressed her dissent with my way of carrying out certain duties and activities. Almost a decade after we parted from each other, I once d
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