This book is hot – Out of the Doubles Kitchen by Badru Deen
Out of the Doubles Kitchen is a fascinating memoir of the first family of Doubles – the number one street food of Trinidad and Tobago. An informative, educational, and inspiring…
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Recreating Indian Dance in the Diaspora (Video Recording)
Indian dance varies from region to region and state to state in ancestral India. More often than not, performers all tell a story through body, hand and facial movements. From…
On Indo-Caribbean Postgraduates, ABDs, PhDs and Professors
In all Caribbean academic conferences, seminars, webinars, panel presentations and roundtables, there are few Indo-Caribbean researchers, scholars and intellectuals. Given that they are a numerical minority in the region, they…
The Indian Presence in Port of Spain literature
This year’s annual Bocas Lit’ Fest (Bocas Literary Festival) has just ended in Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago (23-25/4/21). For the second year, it ran entirely virtual and…
For Hindus, Christmas begins with Divali
For Hindus, Christmas begins with Divali – the annual Festival of Lights – which usually falls in November. As followers of an eclectic faith, Hindus celebrate Divali as well as…
Indian lives do not matter – violent incitement against Indians
On her Facebook page, well-known ruling People’s National Movement’s (PNM’s) political activist, Juliet Davy, of Trinidad and Tobago, created and shared a horrifying video recently. No one in the mainstream…
Black Power agenda to remove Columbus statue
The National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago has been strangely silent on the rowdy and relentless campaign to remove the historical statue of Christopher Columbus in the capital city of…
University corruption EXPOSED: retrenchment was like a COVID-19 ambush
Schools, colleges and universities worldwide have been closed since March 11, 2020 when COVID-19 was declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic. But for 69 lecturers…
Politics and the Amerindians of Guyana (Part 3 of 3)
By Dr Kumar Mahabir and Jai Sears When rain falls, the laterite roads to the Amerindian settlements in the Rupununi Savannah in Guyana run in a mess and get flooded…