In Fiji the first thing I noticed was the little red triangular flag that some houses raised at their entrance. My driver, a third-generation Indian-Fijian, generously revealed the secret. The red flag means the house belongs to a Hindi family. When in need of assistance, any Hindi can ask for it at any of these houses, even if she doesn't know who lives there.
Fijian (Melanesian) and Indians are about the same in number on this island. Three generations away from india, many of the Indian-Fijians do not know anything about their ancestral land. Still they keep their language, customs, and religion. The biggest Hindu temple in the southern hemisphere is in Nadi (pronounced Na-n-di).
The presence of the people of Indian-descent reminds me of Guadeloupe, the Caribbean island. There is a railway to carry the harvest of the sugar cane. Sometimes the landscape of the islands are curiously identical.
