Author: Niala Maharaj

Food and Cuisine, People, Suriname

Soenil Bahadoer: the chef with the spice | Cookup

Niala Maharaj meets the award-winning Soenil Bahadoer, whose fusion of European haute cuisine and Surinamese home cooking draws foodies to his Michelin-starred restaurant in the Netherlands

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Culture, Music, People, Trinidad and Tobago

Mungal Patasar: millennium music

“I am a musician of the world. India is my memory, Trinidad the ground under my feet, Europe my door to the world. My music is a gift...

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Culture, Food and Cuisine, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

A Roti to Die For

The roti, to the Trinidadian, is what the bagel is to the New Yorker. Invented in Trinidad, it is based on culinary ideas brought by...

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Music, Festivals and Events, Trinidad and Tobago

Going Ramayn in Trinidad

“Survival is the triumph of stubbornness, and spiritual stubbornness, a sublime stupidity, is what makes the occupation of poetry...

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Culture, Literature, People

Alecia McKenzie: New Wave

It was a whole week before she mentioned the book. Alecia McKenzie and I had been thrown together on a journalistic assignment in Vienna,...

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Culture, Travel, Lifestyle, Trinidad and Tobago

Matelot, Trinidad: Behind God’s Back

“Matelot,” people in Trinidad say. “That’s behind God’s back.” By which, of course, they mean that the...

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Culture, History, Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad’s Temple in the Sea

Quarter of a mile off the west coast of Trinidad there stands an extraordinary monument to the human spirit: a magnificent Hindu temple,...

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