The Transaction

Raghavee Srivastava the niece of Uncle Raju who happened to be a prominent member of the Communist Party was the daughter of an Indian rural shopkeeper. The shop was located on the edge of the national road connecting Johannesburg to Durban. Her friend Martin Marshall, a white boy, lived on a small farm across the road from the shop. They had been friends since childhood. In race-obsessed apartheid South Africa it was indeed rare that genuine friendships between white and black or white and...