Tag: indian culture

If not the crook or mook, then who? Dear Editor, Reading Devant Maharaj’s response to Ronald Harford that Ronald was somehow making light of a dire situation by accepting our ...

The Indian Diaspora Council (IDC) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nicole Bissessar as its Director of Community Cultural Affairs. The appointment is effective immediately. Dr. Bissessar hails ...

As a diaspora Indian Hindu growing up in Trinidad my Indianness is defined by the social constructs that cultivate my mind and shape my Atma I feel reenergized for the ...

Pran Pratishta, simply put, is a process of consecration by which life energies are infused into a murti or even a space. The Vishnu Samhita speaks about the different types ...

Dear Editor, The past week witnessed the unexpected deaths ofFOUR children, 3 within the Berbice, region. Naiomi Raghu, 8, a pupil at the New Market Primary School, was treated at ...

Eric Williams created the Labasse culture when he inundated Trinidad with small islanders whose primordial approach to existence was a life and death one with existential finesse, with the niceties ...

The Indian Diaspora Council (IDC) joins in solidarity with its global affiliates and membership, other organizations, institutions, agencies, and individuals globally in supporting the international awareness of Earth Day and ...

The Naipaul Award for Indo/Trini Excellence Founder: L. Siddhartha Orie (author of 17 books). Advisors: Author B. Deen; Ambassador Chandradath Singh; Digital consultant: Yudhistha Orie Tel: (868) 309-1467 Email: lsiddh@yahoo.com ...

Budgets in Guyana always presage a season of discontent. They exacerbate the proclivity of groups in plural societies to compare their situation against other groups, signalled by budget allocations. Invariably, ...

In 1964, politically-instigated racial turmoil raged throughout British Guiana (now Guyana) as the Caribbean/South American country prepared for independence. Accompanied by rioting, strikes had erupted in 1962 and 1963, and ...