Beeharry wrote his seminal work That Others Might Live in 1976. It was published in Delhi, for he hoped this story would find wider resonance in India. It is a novel that looks at the lives of three Indians from different regions, who came to Mauritius in entirely different circumstances, two of them as indentured labourers and the third, Thomas, who goes to work for a missionary.
In many ways, Beeharry’s book is a precursor to Amitav Ghosh’s The Sea of Poppies. It is a story that begins on a s...