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Prasad, Mohit (2013) A for Apple. [Creative Works] (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Between 14th May, 1879 and 1st January, 1920, just over 65,000 indentured Indian laborers’ were brought to Fiji. They worked in plantations or did other menial work often under brutal conditions. This film is one tale from the many lives subsumed in Indenture under the euphemistic “agreement”, from which was coined the term “Girmit”. One’s Girmit was karmic, cosmic and often deadly…one among the many in the vagaries of life, death and life…

Item Type: Creative Works
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1993 Motion Pictures
Divisions: Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE) > School of Language, Arts and Media
Depositing User: Melvin Prasad
Date Deposited: 11 Jun 2014 00:14
Last Modified: 28 Sep 2016 03:12
URI: https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/7506

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