Fiji Girmit

Perception of the future is always fortified by knowledge of the past, for, one fires the ambition and the drive to strive towards success while

The Girmit narrative is no longer concerned with the grand moral questions of indenture, with questions of right and wrong, and with apportioning blame. Among

This year 14th May will mark 135 years since the schooner ‘Leonidas’ arrived in Suva, Fiji in 1879 with the first “Girmit” labourers from India.

The fact that India is the only country that has stood by Fiji and fought for the betterment of Indo-Fijians is well documented, but not

Indenture everywhere involved rupture and reconstitution but its pace and pattern differed from place to place. The fragments of ancestral culture that the migrants brought

As I write this article for the Indian Newslink Girmit Celebration issue, it seems natural to break my contribution into three parts. The first is

As the nation commemorates the 135th anniversary of the arrival of indentured Indians to Fiji, the National Federation Party (NDP) calls upon all peoples of

Indo-Fijians are among the most hardworking and enterprising people in the world. With diffidence, devotion and dedication as their attributes, they are never known to