Fijileaks: One of those listed as a key organiser now claims the paucity of women (especially Indo-Fijian women) on the Committee has nothing to do with him. We should contact Dr Chand, who is facing Abuse of Office charges before the Fiji High Court. "That is a bit risky - what if he goes in - than what happens to the conference?", Fijileaks to Committee member
* The only Indo-Fijian woman on the Committee is Dr Rajni Chand, the wife of NFP leader Biman Prasad. It is extra-ordinary that the Committee have not invited three most senior Indo-Fijian academics who have written on the Girmit era: Professor Brij Lal (written volumes and volumes); Dr Padma Narsey Lal (on the sugar industry), and Professor Wadan Narsey who published, in 1979, in the premier USP Journal of Pacific Studies, one of the first analyses of exploitation of indentured labourers by CSR.
* This was for the special edition of the journal to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the arrival of Indian indentured labourers to Fiji. This long article can be read here in pdf:
https://narseyonfiji.wordpress.com/2012/05/21/monopoly-capital-white-racism-and-super%E2%80%91profits-in-fiji-a-case-study-of-the-colonial-sugar-refining-company-journal-of-pacific-studies%C2%AD-vol-5-1979-pp-66%E2%80%911/
