The New Year: Astrological Predictions for 2022 and Beyond
INVITATION TO ZOOM PUBLIC MEETING THIS SUNDAY By Staff Reporter Many people would like a roadmap to show them where and how their lives will unfold over the next year…
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VIDEO RECORDING: The Significance of Sugary Beverages and Desserts during Christmas By Staff Reporter
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…
The Indianization of Christmas Music in the Diaspora: Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname, Belize and South Africa.
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
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…
Fiji’s history of Indentureship, military coups and attitude towards Indians
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,…
Dr Kumar Mahabir donates copies of his audio-cassettes to UWI
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…