Lakshmi Persaud, who has died aged 86, was inspired by the success of her fellow Trinidadian Indian, the Nobel laureate VS Naipaul, to become a writer, and was the author of some five well-received novels, most of which engaged with the experience of the Indian diaspora, particularly women, in colonial and post-colonial Trinidad.
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