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The Cutlass: Retaining our Indo-Caribbean Culture.”
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Hosted and produced by Vinay Harrichan, an Indo-Trinidadian and fellow Indo-Caribbean and chutney music lover who grew up in the United States, The Cutlass is “a progressive podcast and platform dedicated to the Indo-Caribbean community and descendants of indentureship”
Clad in white and veiled in red with her arms crossed in defiance, the brown-skinned woman stands in front of a sugarcane field clutching a cutlass. There is a tattoo three dots etched onto her chin and a traditional gold bangle a notable sign to identify any Indo-Caribbean clasped around her wrist. With no smile upon her lips, her eyes say it all: strength and resilience amid poverty, abuse, and violence during indentureship. But who could she possibly be? She is our grandmothers, great-grandmothers, our ancestors who were brought from India to Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Mauritius, Fiji, Jamaica, and South Af