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To read this evocative book is to be thrust into a Fiji that has, for the moment, been snuffed out by military might: a Fiji of political parties, parliamentary politics, elections, manifestoes, campaigns, democractic defence of interests, party manoeuvres, and constitutional protection of rights and freedoms.
Each can be read as a rite of Passage. Satendra Nandan call them 'Rights of Passage'. Beyond paradise is a rich and perceptive harvest of memories- personal, political, professional and poetic. It may enrich your reading and inspire you to write your own unique journeys into life.
Rajendra Prasad is a direct descendant of a family that came to Fiji from India under the Indenture System. He grew up in its shadows and has intimate knowledge of the trials and tribulations of those who served under that pernicious system, and writes about life under indenture with knowledge, sincerity, sympathy and indeed compassion.
The Turtle and The Caduceus is the history of the regional medical school in Fiji which was founded in 1885. Rather than just an institutional history, it deals with the influence of developments in Western medical education (The Caduceus) upon the traditional Pacific Culture (The Turtle).
Regional integration has been a "buzz word" for Pacific Island Countries (PIC's) for more than a decade, with many agreements signed, such as the most recent and comprehensive one, The Pacific Island Countries Trade Agreement (PICTA).
Dr. Mohit Prasad's Songs of the Jahajin sings a people in a way that is at once modern in its form and ancient in account of the genesis of a people - Piya Chatterjee's contention that this itself is an epic cycle.
Oceanic Conference on Creativity and Climate Change
Koana has organised a Talkstory, Mo'olelo Festival ["to let the spirit fly between people"] with indigenous storytellers from around the globe meeting in Hawai'i. The theme of the Festival is stories that celebrate past wisdom but also preview the effects of climate change on island nations of the Pacific. But they are challenged by US climate change deniers living on Maui. Who will survive Pele's Tsunami when it comes?
The comparative literary geographies mapped in this book are unique and this has generated some interests in the origin of this project and my own particular relationship, as a white woman from Boston, to the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands.
A vivid desert odyssey; the falling woman travels through a haunting landscape of memory, myth and mental maps. Told in three voices- Stella, Estella and Estelle - this is an inspiring story which weaves together memories of childhood, epilepsy, ancient mysteries and the love of two women.
Offering an exciting ride into how the world could be, this challenging book is the one we have been waiting for. For a long-time feminists have been saying we could do life differently, here is a local and global exploration of what needs to change, what must go, and how together we can make a new reality.
A collection of essays on a variety of topics, including colonialism, writing, education, reading, ethics, corruption, identity, fundamentalism, leadership, religion, nation. And on Gandhi and Nehru as writers; and on V S Naipaul, Patrick White and Wole Soyinka.
Birds and Water- a pair that indicates vitality, a dynamic system, a system that changes season by season. But in our unsettling of the land we have removed the seasons and the birds. Stunning. Like the birds and water on the Murrumbidgee, this collaboration too is dynamic and vital, a woven landscape of word and texture into a wrought gift.
This is an examination of topical issues in education in Fiji:ethnic, gender and regional disparities in examination performance;the impact of multiracialism in schools; the effect of class size and pupil:teacher ratio on educational performance.
