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Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten

Web Desk - March 3, 2024

"Invisible Windrush: how the stories of Indian indentured labourers from the Caribbean were forgotten", The Conversation, June 6, 2023: "My father never spoke to us...

History

The Case for Reparations for Post-Slavery Indentured Servitude

Guest Author - September 2, 2023

Anthropologist, author and University of Guyana lecturer Dr. Kumar Mahabir recently presented a research paper at the Anton de Kom University in Suriname on...

World

Education trends in the Indian diaspora

Dr. Kumar Mahabir - December 15, 2022

Every year, the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) and other examining bodies and education ministries in the region announce CXC results in the same format:...

World

Hindu temples desecrated and robbed in Trinidad, fanatics scrawl Bible verse on wall

HinduPost Desk - October 3, 2022

The reality that Hindus are not safe in any part of the Abrahamic-dominated world was once again vindicated when two Hindu temples were desecrated,...

World

The marginalisation and exclusion of Indo-Caribbeans in the CXC History syllabus [Part 2]

Dr. Kumar Mahabir - February 3, 2022

At a webinar on Zoom recently, I presented part of a research paper I had originally delivered at a conference at the University the...

World

The marginalisation and exclusion of Indo-Caribbeans in the CXC History Syllabus [Part 1]

Dr. Kumar Mahabir - February 2, 2022

At a webinar on Zoom recently, I presented part of a research paper I had originally delivered at a conference at the University the...

Society & Culture

Hindu families exploited by funeral homes in Trindad & Tobago

Guest Author - December 30, 2021

The Hindu community vis-a-vis Covid is being exploited by institutions that are supposed to serve and protect its welfare. Worse, is the inability of...

World

Dr. Cheddi Jagan, Guyana, Marxism, Race, Politics and the USA (Part 1)

Dr. Kumar Mahabir - May 29, 2021

Cheddi Jagan was first elected Chief Minister of Guyana in 1953. He became the first person of Indian descent to be head of a government...

World

Bharatiya community in Barbados

Dr. Kumar Mahabir - December 23, 2020

Barbados is located in the Caribbean near Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Martinique. It is 34 kilometres (21 miles) in length and up to...

Education

Bharatiya Diaspora Studies in universities in Bharat

Dr. Kumar Mahabir - November 29, 2020

Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) who live in the Caribbean, and in the Caribbean diaspora, are descendants of indentured, immigrant labourers. They were brought...

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