Notes

Article from the New Zealand Herald
28 August 2010: As Auckland merges to create a supercity, the Herald looks back at how Auckland has changed over the years.

Indian-born Aucklander Sapna Samant describes the migrant experience.

Early Indian migrants worked in rail and road gangs; they resisted the discrimination of the White New Zealand League in Pukekohe, offered food to striking Auckland dock workers in 1951, protested against the Springbok Tour in 1981.

Such stories are neither part of the mainstream fabric nor shared with new Indian migrants. Not by the ethnic bodies set up to serve us, not by media and never by the Indians themselves.