Christmas on the plantation was a holiday for the slaves and a chance to catch up with members of their family who were working on neighbouring cane f...elds.It was a rare day, one of only a few when the slaves did not labour in the fields for their Dutch masters. These special days all coincided with holy days like Christmas and Easter. Each had a veritable feast, plenty of the local hooch, distilled from the cane sugar and a large open-pit fire.They made music. Mostly with a West African basis,. Antha busil pin vilaku eriyaamal irunthathu, sola ponal rumba irutaga irunthathu, antha busil mothamaagave engalai seithu 6 per thaan irunthu irupaargal. Vayathil periyavargal thaan irunthaargal athanaal engal meethu santhegap patu naangal ena seigirom enbathai yarum parka matargal. Bus condector oru idathil keezhe irangi vitar.Intha bus neraga coimbatoreku selum idaiyil engum nirkathu veru aatkalaiyum etarathu. Naan aunty arugil amarnthen, aval thol meethu saiya aarambithen. Konjam konjamaaga. I dreamed of him the whole night in my loneliness. The next day I purposefully made my daughter late and I stood at the same bus stop. He came after some time but this time he just unzipped and stood with his rod (straight hard) in the corner and kept staring at me. I pretended not too look. After sometime he came next to me but before he could speak, my bus came and I got in. But he too followed me and he got in the same bus and sat next to me. I didn’t look at him but something told me that. “You start.”“I’ve come to beg you not to finish with Connie. She’s distraught. She came to see me after school. We talked and then she came back here, but you didn’t come home. Honestly Graham, she’s out of her mind with worry.”“Did she say what she’d done?” I asked.“Yes, and she’s well aware how horrible it was of her. I think it was the shock of you arriving mid-morning and telling her you’d been accused of molesting a teenager. You know her picture of men’s characters is pretty poor: she.