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The Leaders recognized capacity building as an important pillar of India’s partnership with the Republic of Fiji. Prime ...
Suva [Fiji], May 13 (ANI): Union Minister Pabitra Margherita was the guest of honour at the 146th Girmit Day celebrations in Fiji. Through a series of posts on X, the Union Minister of State of ...
Labasa [Fiji], May 13 (ANI): Union Minister of State of External Affairs and Textiles, Pabitra Margherita, called on the Prime Minister of Fiji, Sitiveni Rabuka, after having participated in the 146th ...
I have seen at least 3 letters printed in the dailies on indentured immigrants/laborers and Girmitiyas. I am confused as to why there is a concern whether we use indentured immigrants/laborers or ...
During British rule, many Indians were forcibly taken to Fiji to work as bonded labourers in cane plantations. Their struggle will form the plot of this film, which will be shot in UP. The plight of ...
“ The descendants of the brave and courageous Girmitiyas (slaves from the Central-South- East -Asian-Indian Continent) are celebrating and remembering the 132 anniversary of their tempestuous ...
The memoirs of the former Indian ambassador to Fiji highlight, through his own family’s history, the iniquities of the colonial indentured system whose consequences continue to embitter that nation’s ...
New Delhi, Jun 11 (PTI) The painful story of ‘girmitiyas’ — indentured labourers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, who were taken away overseas by colonial rulers to work on sugar plantations, has now ...
Shyam Nandan, a resident of Ambedkar Nagar district in UP, has been selected to present his research paper at the World Hindi Conference (WHC) to be held in Fiji from February 15-17. Nandan had sent a ...
Prime Minister of the Republic of Fiji Sitiveni Ligamamada Rabuka, accompanied by his spouse, Suluweti Rabuka, will visit India from August 24 to 27, the Ministry of External Affairs said. The visit ...