SAWARI'S SOLILOQUY: As Professor and poet Satendra Nandan pens a "moving poem" on the Iranian asylum seeker deported out of Fiji, NFP hopes for a sequel from Nandan

SAWARI'S SOLILOQUY: As Professor and poet Satendra Nandan pens a "moving poem" on the Iranian asylum seeker deported out of Fiji, NFP hopes for a sequel from Nandan - to link deportation to 2013 Constitution

22/2/2017

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Meanwhile, detention, flight, and exile from dictatorship has been part of Indo-Fijian history since the 1987 Sitiveni Rabuka coups:

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Chiku

22/2/2017 11:31:31 pm

A brilliant mind does not necessarily translate into doing what is right.
Professor Satendra Nandan provides a good example of that. He joined the Bainimarama bandwagon after the military man's unlawful takeover of the Government and became one of his intellectual props.
He stands as a man with a damaged credibility notwithstanding his voluminous literally contribution.

Rajend Naidu

23/2/2017 02:31:26 am

Editor,
A Decent Sort
Conversation piece captured in the British Sitcom As Time Goes By :
" You are a decent sort ".
Now that's something we can't say of some of the people who have risen to power or prominence in post coup Fiji.
They are hardly a decent sort although they make a great pretence of it.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

jml

23/2/2017 09:44:33 am

Nandan, the mole in the camp.

Totaram

23/2/2017 10:45:25 am

After the recent tebutt poll which gave Biman at 0.5% support, the leader of NFP is going full speed with left right and center press release on anything any everything.

With no support from Tupou and itaukei, let's see of nfp crosses the 5% threshold

Gulong

23/2/2017 11:23:53 am

Professor Nandan is an idealist and sentimentalist. His writings romanticise images of mother India and of the Info Fijian peasantry that helped contribute to the misguided notion that undergirded Rabuka's coup that Indo Fijians are loyal to India and not to Fiji. The irony of Satendra Nandan is that while he idealises the Induan diaspora in Fiji he rejected the simplicities of life in Fiji to go and live amidst western affluence in Canberra, Australia. His current effort on the Iranian deportation from Fiji is another misguided and warped interpretation by this smooth talking self seeking narcicissist

Fiji First Party

23/2/2017 08:54:19 pm

That’s an excellent piece of writing from Dr. Nandan. Thank you, Sir.

See... you can be a good man if you don’t keep bad company.

Looking forward to reading your upcoming novel set in Suva, Canberra and Delhi – Wow! Is it about our “daaku”?

Fiji First Party

23/2/2017 09:29:18 pm

Well, it’s within ones’ democratic rights to either praise or criticise.

But NFP has not once said that the 2013 Constitution of Khaiyum is a FRAUD (like we repeatedly say) – or that the 2013 FRAUD (and FAKE) Constitution of Khaiyum has been IMPOSED onto the People of Fiji - exactly like the 1990 FRAUD (and FAKE) Constitution of Rabuka had been IMPOSED onto the People of Fiji.

No, NFP is a beneficiary of this 2013 FRAUD Constitution of Khaiyum – without it ever questioning the "totally-nonexistent" powers of Khaiyum to abrogate the PEOPLES’ 1997 Constitution.

Khaiyum is a pathetic, pitiable IP Thief, who could not even come up with an original name for his CHOR political party, thinks himself above the supreme law of the land and abrogate it? How can that be –unless ‘sold-out’ parties like NFP (and others) allow it.

Rajend Naidu

23/2/2017 09:54:03 pm

Editor,
Five high priest of the Catholic Church have appeared before a Royal Commission to respond to sexual abuses perpetrated by priests in their church.
In a penal discussion on this ( ABC Drum 22/2 ) John Lyons the associate editor of The Australian, a man with 35 years of experience as a senior journalist, said the credibility of some of these church leaders was pretty low. The people did not trust what came out of their mouths because of the longstanding culture of cover-ups in the church hierarchy .
The problem of trust is of course not restricted to church leaders. Political leaders and community leaders often have a trust deficit as our own experience tells us.
Some of these leaders even have no qualms about lying outright to cover- up wrongdoing.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

Rajend Naidu

23/2/2017 10:26:21 pm

Editor,
State Authorities Doing The Wrong Thing
The Australian government is being sued in a class action in a court in Jakarta for allegedly jailing juveniles for people smuggling in adult prisons or holding them in immigration detention between 2008 and 2012.( smh 23/4 ).
Muhammed Rasid, one of the juveniles so imprisoned, said he was 16 at the time and was put in the Silverwater jail in Sydney alongside murders and drug addicts. He was very frightened.
Australia was " no show " at the court hearing and the case is to proceed at a later date ( Aljazeera 24/2).
If the allegation is true than it sounds like something out of a third world banana republic with scant regard for international norms for state conduct, rather than the conduct of a First World democracy like Australia.
We will have to wait for the courts determination of the case to find out the truth.
Sincerely,
Rajend Naidu

splashViti

24/2/2017 11:40:30 am

Still, I think it's a nice tribute. I'll bet Sawari would love to read this brilliant, pensive poem and may probably add to it.

It is true that in some sense our lives mirror his. We are fellow sojourners whose "life on earth is like a shadow that does not abide"... and yet, we are ultimately held answerable as our brother's keeper.

I hope Sawari will dig deep to get through this rough patch, he's such a brave young man.

Kyrie Eleison...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=belrNpqqA2g

ps. sorry FijiLeaks but have reverted to my nom de plume from temp. "just wonderful".

Gulong

24/2/2017 06:32:15 pm

Once an NFP parliamentarian then metaphosing into a stong Fiji First supporter Satendra Nandan typifies the problem when poets delve themselves into politics -- they carry their own subjectivism into politics never mind its wrong. When you compare Namdan's writings on the Fiji Indian diaspora with that of V.S. Naipaul who writes of the Indian diaspora in Trinidad you will see that while Nandan has an idealised poetic view of the Fiji diaspora Naipaul adopts a very realistic view and whereas Nandan glorifies mother India as a land flowing with milk and honey Naipaul's book on his vigil depicts a very real difference between the real and the imagined.
Unfortunately for Nandan in his foray into politics in his unmitigated support for the BaiKai Constitution and now his poem on the virtuous Sawari, the illegal inmigrant deported from Fiji, Nandan is all wrong. The only soliliquy he is capable of is the soliliquy of his own slumber and mental numbness

splashViti

26/2/2017 05:26:01 am

Aww... a beautiful bouquet of roses from Sawari on his fb page. He'll come through.

Janardhan

3/3/2017 12:18:34 pm

Meanwhile Rajend Naidu continues to enlighten us all with his supposedly widening intellectual girth, bolstered by a daily drip of Edification by Newspaper.

Rajend, I'm tired of your irrelevant, tangential dribble, perennially unrelated to the topic you post under.

I have a question for you. Does your regime sucker brother Professor Vijay Naidu share your anti-Bai statements that are seen to decorate your otherwise unrelated postings here?

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SAWARI'S SOLILOQUY: As Professor and poet Satendra Nandan pens a "moving poem" on the Iranian asylum seeker deported out of Fiji, NFP hopes for a sequel from Nandan - to link deportation to 2013 Constitution

Meanwhile, detention, flight, and exile from dictatorship has been part of Indo-Fijian history since the 1987 Sitiveni Rabuka coups:

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