Dalton Narine
7 min readFeb 11, 2021

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…

Dalton Narine

Disabled Vietnam veteran. Wrote for The Village Voice. Won writing awards at The Miami Herald & Ebony magazine. On final draft of first screenplay.