Obituary – Professor Brij Lal: 21 August 1952 – 25 December 2021

Obituary – Professor Brij Lal: 21 August 1952 – 25 December 2021 Blessed by Mother Saraswathi (Hindu Goddess of Learning) with an extra-ordinary intellect, Professor Brij Lal was a multi-talented – internationally renowned scholar, activist for human rights and social justice (for which he was exiled from his beloved Fiji and had to move to Australia), with enviable writing skills I knew Professor Brij Lal for about twenty years. We met at international conferences and kept in touch via email. Our last meeting was in October 2017 at the “Challenging Perspectives on the Indian Diaspora” Conference in Den Haag, Holland, marking the century since the abolition of Indian indenture where he gave the opening keynote