“What Links the overseas Indians”, the Indian Novelist Raja Rao told me in Mysore, “is the idea of India”. The overseas Indians aren’t really as displaced as they sometimes think, the author argued quietly. There is something essential and permanent in a civilization that lives on in a people wherever they go. He was echoing Tagore who had written: “India can live and grow by spreading overseas- not political India but, the ideal India. (Subramani, The indo-Fijian experience 1979, p. ix).