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Interview with Kantha Soni
Date: 31 01 1995 - 31 Jan 1995
From: A history of Indian women in Aotearoa
By: Soni, Kantha (Dr), active 1951-1995
Reference: OHInt-0063/08
Description: Kantha Soni details how she was born in Fiji, speaks Hindu, Gujarati and English, that her religion is Hindu and how she came to New Zealand in 1951 to study to become a doctor. Notes that she is the first New Zealand Indian woman doctor. Talks about her life in Fiji, her schooling at a Methodist school, her hard years of study, the struggle of her family to send her to New Zealand to study, her career, living in Wellington, her divorce and being on her own for 22 years. Talks about living with her mother and her daughter in Auckland. Discusses how everything she has done is untraditional; leaving home, having a career, getting a divorce and bringing up a child on her own. Talks about not feeling that she is radical but rather that she just did it because it was important to her. Explains that the caste system is not important to her, that the indigenous peoples of India were conquered, not born into the caste system. Talks about being a feminist and what this means to her. talks about setting up the first Maori women's health collective on the North Shore and what an achievement this has been for her. Discusses her involvement with the Indian community and her plans for the future. Venue - Wellington Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-006137 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s) - summary notes. 1 interview(s). 1 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other OHA-1380.