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Rainbows in Braille ” a short story from “Rainbows in Braille” – A collection of short stories – By Elmo Jayawardena Rosalin was a domestic servant.  In the years gone by, domestic servants were part of every urban home. I am talking of half a century ago, early fifties in Ceylon, this was a long time before my homeland was ‘born again’ as the Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka.        These domestic servants worked in houses sometimes in single form and at times in multiples. Obviously the number depended on the status and wealth the family enjoyed in the social strata in the townships; the food, the pay and the space to live, such were the governing factors that decided how many servants a family could afford. Richer the household, many were the minions, each having his or her allocated duties to perform and of course doubling up on other ...