South African Indian Writings in English

[Guest guest]

Kriben Pillay, from Noumenon, a foremost publication dedicated to nonduality,

sends the following. His website is at <http://users.iafrica.com/n/no/noumenon/index.html>

 

Last night a new, and very important, book was launched

profiling 27 South African writers of Indian origin.

Compiled by Dr Rajendra Chetty, the fact that a book is

still required in South Africa to alert academia and the

general public to writings of South African Indians

speaks volumes about the continued marginalisation of

this group - in all walks of life. In the past Indians

were not white enough; now there is evidence that we are

not black enough.

The ill-considered closure of the departments of Drama,

Music and Fine Arts at the University of

Durban-Westville in 2000, which were staffed mainly by

South African Indians - and which resulted in my own

retrenchment - effectively closed the door on many

creative voices within this community.

In a strange way, the new democratic South Africa might

be spawning ethnic activity that hearkens back to the

apartheid era - but in this case it might be justified.

Kriben

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