Lost Christmas

A town which once had a significant Anglo-Indian community is now a picture of desolation.

McCluskiegunge was a dream taking purposeful shape, a unique enclave of Anglo-Indians, till fate and circumstances intervened to turn this town into a graveyard of dilapidated bungalows that are left as decaying symbols of McCluskie’s bold attempt to safeguard his community from what he saw as an inevitable ‘submersion and annihilation’.

Or perhaps, it is this Christmas being a non-event that is more symbolic of the aching loneliness in the air. There are no McCluskies, Camerons, Perkins and De Rozarios around anymore. It’s a saddening sight. Zee Avi’s words come echoing through the desolation, a cry as plaintive as ever, calling out to the Anglo-Indian diaspora… Christmas won’t be Christmas without you.

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