By Dr. Kumar Mahabir
Not many Indian parents in India and the Indian Diaspora are inclined to encourage their children to study the Arts, the Humanities, and Social Sciences. They prefer, instead, to influence their children to study Medicine, Law, and Engineering as a career.
The result is that there are proportionately few visual artists, stage performers, comedians, spoken-word poets, filmmakers, directors, and actors.
A ZOOM public meeting was held recently (10/1/21) on the topic “Films on Indo-Caribbean identity, culture, and heritage.” The Pan-Caribbean meeting was hosted by the Indo-Caribbean Cultural Centre (ICC). It was chaired by Dr. Kirte Algoo of Suriname and moderated by Bindu Deokinath-Maharaj of Trinidad.