Bittersweet
Subtitle: the Indo-Fijian experience
By: edited by Brij V. Lal ; photographs by Peter Hendrie.
Contributors: Lal, Brij V.
Publisher: Pandanus Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Canberra
Language: eng; fij
Number of pages: 407
Subjects: East Indians -- Fiji -- History.; East Indians -- Fiji -- Social life and customs.; Indentured servants -- Fiji -- History.; East Indians -- Migrations -- History.; Fiji -- History.
Description: "Bittersweet marks the 125th anniversary of the arrival of the first girmitiyas in Fiji. Ranging across the past and present, these essays, memoirs, short fiction and poetry introduce readers to Indo-Fijians and their world. The collection includes commentaries on sport, health, education and psychology, punctuated by vignettes of social interaction, familial relations and the pain of displacement." "Illustrated with rich colour photographs, Bittersweet is a testament to the complexity of the Indo-Fijian experience."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: In English, with one chapter in Fiji Hindi.
Includes bibliographical references.
"Essays, memoirs, short fiction and poetry ... includes commentaries on sport, health, education and psychology"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Girmit, history, memory -- Brij V. Lal -- 2.; title: Voices from the past -- Praveen Chandra and Saras Chandra -- 3.; title: Jaikumari -- John Kelly -- 4.; title: Remembering -- Ahmed Ali -- 5.; title: Parlay poems for the indentured -- Mohit Prasad -- 6.; title: Dada : Bhaga to Dillon -- Kanti Jinna -- 7.; title: Dilkusha -- Vijay Mishra -- 8.; title: Upahar Gaon -- Susanna Trnka -- 9.; title: Sa I Levuka Ga -- Annie Sutton -- 10.; title: Soccer -- Mohit Prasad -- 11.; title: The Qawa 'epidemic' -- Jacqueline Leckie -- 12.; title: Marriage -- Brij V. Lal -- 13.; title: All saints' primary, Labasa -- Christine Weir -- 14.; title: Primary texts -- Brij V. Lal -- 15.; title: Masterji -- Brij V. Lal -- 16.; title: Shanta -- Malcolm Tester -- 17.; title: Aisha -- Padma Lal -- 18.; title: A passage to Sydney -- John Connell and Sushma Raj -- 19.; title: Goodbye to paradise -- Vijendra Kumar -- 20.; title: Immeasurable distances -- Shrishti Sharma -- 21.; title: Final day -- Asish Janardhan -- 22.; title: Colour my country -- Mosmi Bhim -- 23.; title: Searching -- Vijay Naidu -- 24.; title: Maarit -- Brij V. Lal.