Why do people like to celebrate events such as Christmas with a sweet taste? Is this intense craving for sweetness in sorrel drinks, rum, wines, cakes, chocolates p(a)rasad, kurma, maleeda…
INVITATION TO ZOOM PUBLIC CONCERT THIS SUNDAY (BOXING DAY) Scholars of the social sciences in the Caribbean use the term “creolization”, but never use “Indianization” at all. Creolization is the…
The Old & the New Indenture: Labour Practices and Human Rights Labour exploitation is a violation of human rights that can be considered through different lenses. It poses a significant…
INVITATION TO ZOOM PUBLIC MEETING THIS SUNDAY Except for Mauritius, Indians in the Diaspora live a life of insecurity and suffer for generations from institutional discrimination: South Africa and Uganda,…
Please see acknowledgement to anthropologist Dr Kumar Mahabir who donated copies of his audio-cassettes which were digitized by UWI. The tapes contain personal oral histories of Indian Indentureship in the…