The following is an excerpt from The Sly Company of People Who Care, a new novel set in Guyana, and scheduled to be released on April, 26 2011. The author is Indian national, cricket journalist, Rahul Bhattacharya, and it's his first novel.
Baby was a black man, black going to red—not red enough for red, but red enough for his childhood call name Cookup: a bit of this and a bit of that. He had shed the name quick. As he grew older his skin, his whole face, turned more like a blackman, no longer showing a strain of ‘every blasted thing that ever step into Guyana’. This was the power of black, he said in a way that was half pride, half boast. [More here: Livemint.com].
