In 1838, with the abolition of slavery at its onset, the British were in the process of transporting a million Indians out of India and into the Caribbean to take the place of the recently freed Africans (freed in 1833) in indentureship. India’s population provided the British Empire with a ready source of cheap and mobile labourers.
Many Indians agreed to indenture which increased dramatically after the abolition of slavery in 1834. They were sent, sometimes in large numbers, to plantation colonies producing high value crops such as sugar in Africa and the Caribbean. 

Made possible by money raised by National Lottery players, the project will enable all residents of our city to understand the journey from arrival to citizenship. 

This wonderful City has been a changing place long before The Mayflower sailed, it has welcomed and absorbed new people and families, changing its DNA in the process, becoming an international City, a fusion of faces, faiths, cultures and businesses that overlap in our every day experience. 
Culminating in an exhibition in Sea City Museum and a new archive collection in the City Archives, The Journey will create a series of radio programmes and podcasts, and social media, with contributors from many of the communities in the city, to tell the actual story of who these people were and who they have become, record the Testimonies (Oral histories) of those who left their home behind and became the parents and grand-parents of new generations of Saints fans. At the centre of this will be volunteers trained and given the skills to do this work.

The Indian indenture system was a form of debt bondage, by which 2 million Indians called coolies were transported to various colonies of European powers to provide labour for the (mainly sugar) plantations. It started from the end of slavery in 1833 and continued until 1920. 

… but they were often ignorant of the places they agreed to go to or the challenges they were going to face. 

The Journey (A Changing Southampton). Despite the fact that the history of people from the Indian Sub-continent is part of British because India was a vital part of the British Empire. The economic wealth it provided being as important as the Industrial Revolution. Despite its importance generally far too little is known about the experience of the people who are now Southampton citizens but who came from India, Pakistan or Bangladesh.   Slavery in what we now know as South Africa began soon after Jan van Riebeeck set up a Dutch settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 to supply provisions to Dutch ships plying trade routes to and from India and the East Indies, people from India were taken to the Cape and sold into slavery to do domestic work for the settlers, as well the dirty and hard work on the farms.

Tasha Kapoor in Conversation.   Tasha Kapoor 

A Post Graduate in English Literature but decided to study Fashion designing from SNDT in Mumbai. After working in the televsion industry for 5 years in front of the camera as an actor on popular GECs like   Maharana Pratap on Sony, Hanuman on Sony, Krishnadaasi on Colors, Tv ke uss paar on Zee zindagi

She is currently successfully running her own Label since the last 5-6years and recently launched her passion project in luxury Skincare. Juggling between her fashion line/styling and Skincare is what tests her entrepreneurial skills. She is a big advocate for Women Entrepreneur

Styled many projects like Havells, Paytm, Hindustan Times, Zeno, Lakme, and many more

Amol Deshmukh in conversation with Unity 101.     

Faisal Javed talks to Amol Deshmukh

 Amol started acting on stage in Marathi and Hindi..He then became News anchor in local cable channels…Gained many state level awards for acting.

Did a part time course with National School of Drama. After few years he joined Film and Television Institute of India.

After passing in 2013 Amol did lots of films starting from one scene to lead … IMAGO is a film where he played central character which was officially selected by The Mumbai Academy of Moving Image (MAMI) is a public trust that organizes the annual international film festival in Mumbai. Actress Deepika Padukone was the former chairperson of the trust. Now streaming on NETFLIX…… His other film TURTLE got National award as Best Rajasthani film opposite Sanjay Mishra. Was a part of many commercial Hindi mainstream films Mardani 2, wake up Sid, City of Dreams…

Recently done two web series in Hindi and Marathi…

In Hindi one of the important characters for Amazon n Central Character in Marathi for new App Planet M i.e. planet Marathi…

Pratika Sen in conversation with Amol Kamkar of Unity 101. 

• The elephant in the room (short film) – directed by Krishan hooda
• Supporting lead in feature film – SYNDICATE- directed by Shekhar Ghosh
• Undercover- directed by Anushree Mehta
• Theatre worker and actor for past 4 ½ years at Ashokenagar natyaanan (Bengali theatre)
• Worked as an assistant director
• Ranked the highest player for the Orleans, France team in the league tournament
• Played league tournaments and won for Lake City, Florida, USA
• Played in All India Tennis Association (AITA) tournaments
• Played International Tennis federation juniors (ITF), where she represented India
• Along with competitive training took part in various training workshops and camps in India, Spain, France, and USA
• Was associated with an animal rescue team named Shashakt, for dog training purposes and public speaker in events conducted.
• Experience in dog training and dog handling in shows for 2 years

Shika Chauhan in Conversation with Moly Mukhertee Gupta.

Completed 2 years course in Indian Classical Dance – Katthak from Bhatkhande, Lucknow. And also a Graduate in BSC.

She has done Adverts for Tata, Sketch with TVF. Have been a part of Movies like MUKKABAZ, BOLE CHUDDIYAN and worked in a Web Series – LITTLE THINGS (Season 3 and 4) and part of few YouTube short films.

Working as a Casting Assistant at “The Perfect Way Casting Company”, Mumbai.

Had been part of Mirzapur 2 with Casting Bay and some Adverts as a freelancer or Casting Assistant (Mahindra, Vivo, Mumbai Indians, Google, OLX, Cred, Instagram and many more).

Adawitiya in Conversatiion with Adeshi Joshi. A Post Graduate in construction management – And also a Graduate in economic honours.

He is also a trained actor and has been working in this industry from past 4 years now. He has done work for Dharma productions movie Good newwz’s song Sauda Khara Khara. Also worked for Govinda Mera naam (upcoming in 2022). Worked in TV shows, Molkki as Karan and kundali bhagya as Shiv.

Done a LGBTQ short movie Un.Suitables which got selected for Asia’s biggest LGBTQ film festival Kashish International Film festival and won awards at many more film festivals and now is on YouTube with over 2.5 million views in just two months.

Bhakti D Marnier in Conversation with Darshana Ghalsasi.
She ia a  Chartered Accountant and currently a full time actor by profession.

Bhakti quit her corporate job in 2018 to explore the artist in her.  She started off with Theatre and got opportunities to not only perform in India but also perform in London and Nairobi. She started venturing into Ads and web shows and since then she has done over 40 ads that tops major brands like Cadbury, Swiggy, Spotify HDFC Mutual Fund, Instagram, Starbucks, etc.

She has been a part of 4 web shows for OTT platforms like Eros Now and Zee5. One of her short film ‘Anita’ got screened in multiple European Film festival and won ‘The best short in Dublin’.