A Rain of Fire and Gold
Every city has its own history, and the history of each city is marked by a catalytic event, just as each ones life has a certain central event around which it is organized. For New York, it is now the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center. For the Mumbai of my time, it is the floods on July 26th and then the terrorist attacks in 2008. But there was an earlier trauma in the psychic life of the city, which marked the before and after for old-timers.. Fort Stikine " This is not acceptable ", protested Alexander Naismith, " Such a mixture of Cargo is nothing short of suicide ". But the authorities were reluctant and Capt Naismith had no choice but to follow the orders. It was after all a time of war. And so it was not within his rights to refuse this mixture of cargo. He had to bow to the inevitable. The world was at war in 1944. The Japanese had already crossed into India from Burma, and the British government was directing all efforts into