Indians in Fiji : an interpretation -- The wreck of the Syria, 1884 -- Conflict in Bhatgaon : the search for a third party -- You and who else? Challenge songs in Bhatgaon -- Trouble is how you meet it -- Through the time tunnel -- The celebration -- Laxmi -- Sautu -- Tell me where the train goes -- No man's land -- Marigolds -- The guru -- The ghost -- Hope in Delhi -- My father's son -- Labourer's lament -- To my foster mother -- In a temple -- A bastard child -- Musings before the image of the dancing Shiva -- Indo-Fijian fiction and the Girmit ideology -- Across the fence