Edmund Narine, right, speaks the language of the field, like Pedro Almodo’var. It was as if he had crafted it for God, both the field and the language. The craft and the dialogue.

My East Indian Grandfather left Calcutta for Trinidad, wrote multiple books, stories for The Times, bred racing horses.

His brothers, including two uncles and my father, would invite my brother and me to their homes, and that’s how we knew Edmund Narine ran the Ministry of culture and life, no wonder they’d empty their heart out and take us to weekend horse races, and pour a few shillings in our pockets.

Ladies IN RED?

No, no! The Annual Trinidad Carnival; The Mass also performing on, well, Horseback and stilts?

Our grandmotherly East Indian family prepare 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 listed as “East Indians” by Europeans to distinguish them from Native Americans.