Mauritian writer Abhimanyu Unnuth (1937–2018) was the author of more than seventy books. In 2014 he was awarded an honorary fellowship by the Sahitya Akdemi, the Indian National Academy of Letters, for his eminence in the global Hindi literary sphere.
Sugar cane fields at sunset, near Les Trois Mamelles, Mauritius. Credit: Ian Boswell
In this excerpt from the forthcoming translation of the seminal Mauritian Hindi novel Lal Pasina, vil…