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IVA TORA 20 April, 2021, 9:42 pm Mr Ramrakha was among the last remaining stalwarts of the National Federation Party from Fiji’s early post-independence era. Picture: SUPPLIED Kamram Chand Ramrakha, prominent lawyer and a contemporary of leading political lights, Siddiq Koya and Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, died at Sydney’s Mater hospital on April 17, following a long illness. Mr Ramrakha was among the last remaining stalwarts of the National Federation Party from Fiji’s early post-independence era. Erudite and eccentric, he was an engaging raconteur whom I affectionately knew, by turns, as Uncle or KC. He was 88 when he passed on, mind still as sharp, like cut glass, a firm twinkle in his eye and spirits as buoyant as ever, right to the very end. KC was born March 18 1933 in Nabouwalu in Bua to Odin Ramrakha, a senior public servant in the colonial judiciary and his wife Mohandai. ....
21 April, 2021, 5:12 am Mr Ramrakha was among the last remaining stalwarts of the National Federation Party from Fiji’s early post-independence era. Picture: SUPPLIED Karam Chand Ramrakha, a key figure in the negotiations leading to Fiji’s independence from the United Kingdom, died in Sydney at the age of 88. Fondly known as K.C. Ramrakha, he was a lawyer by profession and served in colonial Fiji’s Legislative Council and independent Fiji’s House of Representatives from 1966 to 1982. He was also the general secretary of the National Federation Party from 1969 to 1979, and a member of the House of the Representatives from 1972 to 1982. ....
ANISH CHAND 12 April, 2021, 6:30 pm A view of the State Department seal on a podium. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) THE Government has used re-entry bans as a de facto means of exiling critics, states the United States Department of State 2020 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Fiji. The report states under the Public Order Act, authorities can enforce public order and the Government “may restrict freedom of internal movement, foreign travel, emigration, and repatriation”. The report states that in the past years, Opposition parties had called on the Government to lift re-entry bans on all present and former citizens, including notable historian and former citizen Brij Lal. ....
276 LR Sharma The story is about eight decades old when my father was a 20-year-old youth. As per his account, Jethu and Kanhu were look-alike twins in the village. Kanhu, the younger one, was taller and gifted. He was willing to lend a helping hand and would take on bullies and mischief-makers. The elder Jethu was then serving in the princely Suket state’s constabulary. Once when Jethu fell ill and was unable to attend the daily obligatory drill, Kanhu impersonated him, attended the drill and came back unnoticed. Such was their similarity. The piece de resistance is the incident that follows. Kanhu was a great lover of mangoes. In the month of ‘shravan’, he would visit Jarol, a place famous for mangoes. On one such jaunt, he sent for my father, and asked to follow him. ‘Look Brij Lal, I will treat you today with the choicest of mangoes. But you will have to pretend to be my mango taster. Just do what I say. You will not approve any mango till I give you the n ....
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