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...filling in the gaps, the black holes, in the country's official story of itself. In The Nature of Blood, for example, he gave us Othello's story in the Moor's own voice; in Cambridge, he bestowed the name of the august English university on a doomed West Indian slave. His view does not overlook class or other races - in Foreigners he points out that more than 2,000 Jews fought for Britain in World War I, only to be greeted on their return as aliens. Yet where others complain about history, Phillips sets about remaking it, in more...
Only one ethnic Indian has become Prime Minister of Fiji. He was promptly deposed. For the indigenous nationalists who led the 2000 coup, the descendants of the sugar-cane laborers brought from India in the late 19th century are not true Fijians and never can be. For all the laments about the coup, outsiders tend to think the same way. Four in 10 Fijians are Indian, but their culture isn't part of the nation's image. The postcards leave them...
...When Mahendra Chaudhry was taken hostage in 2000 along with members of his government, New Zealander Bruce Connew's eldest daughter was dating an Indian-Fijian; her sister was dating an indigenous Fijian. When the two young men spoke of Fiji, he recalls, "it was as if they were talking about two different countries." Connew, a documentary photographer, decided to put the unseen Fiji back in the picture...
...migration theme is amplified in a short story about a retired cane worker who travels to Australia to visit his son. Author Brij Lal, a Fiji-born, Canberra-based historian, says 120,000 Indian Fijians have emigrated since 1987; 313,000 remain. Among the book's most poignant images, and the only ones in color, are snaps sent home by those who've moved on - to big cars in California, snow in Canada. Their forebears saw Fiji as a destination; it's turned out to be only a stopover...
...dogs loaded into sealed sheds and gassed, according to Professor David Vine of the American University in Washington. Then the British packed the inhabitants, known as Chagossians, onto ships and sent them off to Mauritius and the Seychelles, 1,200 miles (1,900 km) to the west across the Indian Ocean, where many live to this day. A court case seeking right of return is under way in Britain, and last year the Chagossians were allowed to visit their relatives' graves for the first time. Defense Department spokesman Commander Jeffrey Gordon says the U.S. gassed some dogs but only...