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| | The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature |
 | | She begins with her 'sepia photographs'— word pictures, sights, smells and sounds of a colonial India, of bioscope, butlers and bakhsheesh, of annas and sola topee, of brown sahibs and white mems, of cold curry and Christian phiringi-ness, odds and sods`85 the list goes on. |
 | | She sets off with school and life in the very anglicised Colombo where we meet with Jane, her Buddhist ayah in colourful sarongs and crisp white blouses lullaby-ing Bye-bye baby, bye-bye O! And we hear about the amusing little Black Englishmen, Ms Hunter and Ms Raphael. |
 | | At how 'the discreet old Brown Sahib has been replaced by the new Flash Man, at the New Money, at the ersatz. |
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