‘On the one hand, it’s wonderful to be able to help other people, but you also don’t know how it will end up helping you.’ Backpacking across India was the last way I thought ex-editor of Newsquest, Sean Duggan, would have stumbled upon Calcutta Rescue. I also presume he didn’t imagine overhearing the conversation of a Swiss nurse working for Dr Jack Preger, just south of Kolkata, would kickstart his career in journalism, but as good luck would have it, it did. After having served twelve years in the army, Sean Duggan arrived in Mumbai to trek across India. But as he disembarked the train he had taken to his starting place, his original plans came to an end. ‘Even though I’d been to India twice before, I’d never seen such poverty’, he articulated, ‘the thought of me walking for pleasure through a place where people were so desperately poor was just…’ he paused in quiet reflection for a moment, concluding, ‘well it was just impossible for me’.