Included in this volume are seven journeys covering fifty years. Each can be read as a rite of passage. Satendra Nandan calls the ‘Rights of Passage’. His girmit grandparents – maternal and paternal – had crossed the kalapani of the seven seas to arrive in Fiji around the 1890s. These voyages of self-discovery and self-reflexivity chart different paths from and within Fiji: the first flight from Nadi Airport to his mother’s Antyesti Samskara at the Wailoaloa crematorium. The ‘lyrical beauty and ethical depth’ of a writer’s experience in Fiji, India, Australia are refracted in each piece: a rare revelation of the journey into one’s self.