Behind the story: The prodigal son returns

Ruben Vulawalu returned to his village of Drue, Kadavu after 20 years for his story, Between a rock and a hard place on page 34. He writes about the experience of seeing the devastation caused by Keni and Cyclone Harold.

It was quite a true and humbling experience setting foot in my village after 20 years. I had always wanted to visit Drue but due to work commitments and raising a young family, this was put on hold. The village is a five-hour boat ride from Suva from Fiji’s capital where I live and the return to a village in our traditional culture has cultural expectations that I wanted to do properly when . . .

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