Ladies IN RED?

No, no! The Trinidad Carnival, The Mass on, well, Horseback and stilts?

My East Indian family members in Calcutta get ready for

their trip to Trinidad & Tobago in the early 19th Century.

Orientation and Identification

The East Indians of Trinidad are descendants of indentured laborers who were brought to this southernmost island in the Caribbean from the South Asian subcontinent during the second half of the nineteenth century. They were called “East Indians” by Europeans to distinguish them from Native Americans.

East Indian Writer and Book Seller Edmund Narine, right, and a family member send a scaned message for the Camera in Trinidad

GRANDAD AND HIS EARLY WAYS

My Grandfather was received as an Indian and a Coolie in the 19th century, a weird response to the end of the African slave trade and the end of slavery. While Indian indenture were drawn from agricultural and laboring, Edmund Narine wrote bestsellers. He never knew me as a magazine writer or a warrior in the Vietnam WAR, though he and my Dad and his brother would shoot the breeze about any and every horse race in the contry that were entwined in their heart.

THE OTHER SIDE OF LIFE