Rashi Rohatgi is a Pushcart-nominated writer and Pennsylvania native who lives and teaches in Norway. Her writing has appeared in, among other venues, The Toast, Midnight Breakfast, and Electric Literature. Rohatgi is a fiction reader for Waxwing and a Bread Loaf, VONA, and Tin House alumna. Her forthcoming novella, Sita in Exile, will be released in 2023 by Miami University Press.
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…