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7 Indo-Caribbean Businesses to Shop this Holiday Season
Written by Rebecca Dass

It's that time of year again! With the holiday season just around the corner, now is a fantastic opportunity to show some love to some local Indo-Caribbean businesses.

Supporting small businesses not only helps to uplift the community, but also allows you to find unique gifts that are full of cultural significance. This holiday season, consider supporting these Indo-Caribbean businesses as you spread the joy of giving....Read More

One Year of Story, A Final Letter from the Editors

Written by Felicia Gopi

12 issues, 50 stories, 21 storytellers and nearly 4,000 impressions - this is, 'One Year of Story'.

With one year of story under our belts, Rebecca and I feel immensely grateful that we have accomplished such an incredible feat. Now, we've made the difficult decision to announce December as our final issue as editors of Story.

When I first created the concept of Story and pitched it to Ryan, I had no idea how successful, moving and impactful it would be. Talk about an e-newsletter quickly turned to a digital publication, or online magazine (as many have called it), that has given a platform to our community that commands global interest....Read More

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7 Indo-Caribbean Businesses to Shop this Holiday Season

It's that time of year again! With the holiday season just around the corner, now is a fantastic opportunity to show some love to some local Indo-Caribbean businesses.

Supporting small businesses not only helps to uplift the community, but also allows you to find unique gifts that are full of cultural significance. This holiday season, consider supporting these Indo-Caribbean businesses as you spread the joy of giving.

One Year of Story, A Final Letter from the Editors

12 issues, 50 stories, 21 storytellers and nearly 4,000 impressions - this is one year of Story.

With 1 year of story under our belts, Rebecca and I feel immensely grateful that we have accomplished such an incredible feat. Now, we've made the difficult decision to announce December as our final issue of Story as editors.

When I first created the concept of Story and pitched it to Ryan, I had no idea how successful, moving and impactful it would be. Talk about an e-newsletter quickly turned into a digital publication, or online magazine (as many have called it), that has given a platform to our community with global interest.

Directing Doubles

As Indo-Caribbean people, we are natural storytellers. Most of the time it is informal - when we’re cutting up vegetables, cooking, eating, drinking or just hanging out at family gatherings there is always someone telling a joke or an old time tale. When it is formalized, mostly in books, the results are beautiful. I’m talking about Gaiutra Bahadur, Shani Mootoo, Rajiv Mohabir, David Chariandy, etc… (I’m leaving out V.S. Naipaul, that’s a whole other op-ed!). Then of course there's music, which is a long tradition that continues to evolve, but paradoxically stays the same.

Indo-Caribbean Women’s Jewelry: Traditions and Innovations

My mother’s grandmother, Maharajiah, traveled across the kala pani from India to Trinidad in 1907. Maharajiah’s father was a child during the 1857 Siege of Cawnpore. Hiding in a boatman’s hut, he observed the orange flames as British soldiers, unrestrained in their revenge for British lives lost during the Siege, burnt villages to the ground. Black ashes covered fields and the Sati Chaura Ghat on the bank of the Ganges. Decades after the Siege, when Maharajiah was born, villagers remained impoverished.

Encountering Our Past as Descendants of Indian Indentured Servants

Growing up as Indo-Caribbean woman in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), I learned as a child that most Canadians of European heritage assume that everyone from the Caribbean is Black. The more history-savvy folks know that Black people were forcibly brought to the Caribbean from various African countries via the Transatlantic Slave Trade. I’m embarrassed to admit that I didn’t start seriously looking into how Indian people got to the Caribbean until about a year ago.

A New Yorker in Toronto: Reflections on the Rise of Indo-Caribbean Communities in Toronto

On a recent trip to Scarborough, where I was conducting an interview for my research on the Indo-Caribbean community in Toronto, the already late GO bus driver decided to pull over on the road to use the bathroom at a Swiss Chalet. Annoyed because of the delay, I let out a loud sigh and sucked my teeth. Slightly embarrassed by my noise, I turned around to a sea of brown faces on the bus—everyone was cackling. They seemed to find the situation amusing, accepting that the bus driver needed to use the restroom.

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