The Cutlass

The Cutlass

A progressive podcast and platform dedicated to the Indo-Caribbean community and descendants of Indian indenture. Join host and producer Vinay as he discusses culture, religion, politics, history, and entertainment with a number of distinguished guests. Stay tuned for special solo episodes on current events and pop culture. Please note that this endeavor is to highlight all of the underserved people and forgotten stories in our world, and to provide a safe space for much needed conversations about taboo subjects. Follow The Cutlass on Instagram and Twitter @cutlasspodcast and send your questions and comments to cutlasspodcast@gmail.com. Click on the link to visit our blog page. If you would like to be a contributor to this project, in whatever capacity, do not hesitate to ask. Remember to leave a review and rating. Looking forward to connecting with you, spread the word to your family and friends!

Episodes

April 19, 2021 36 mins
How does someone organize a campaign to fight for their freedom and overturn wrongful imprisonment while still in jail awaiting a fair trial?

Interviewer Brian Ramcharan sits down with Prakash Churaman at his apartment in New York where the 21-year-old is looking forward to a second, more fair, trial to clear his name. Prakash was arrested in December of 2014 at the age of fifteen, sentenced to 9-years-to-life in pris...
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To what extent can descendants of Indian indentureship and members of the diaspora recreate history and culture through art and literature? 

Vinay sits down with Krystal Ramroop to discuss why themes of identity resonate so deeply in her writing. They discuss her upbringing in the Bronx and feelings of oneness with, as well as sometimes alienation from, the Indo-Caribbean and South Asian communities. Krystal opens up ...
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Can you revitalize and rebirth a language for new generations while the older native speakers are all but gone?

Vinay sits down with Dr. Visham Bhimull to apply this question to the case of Trinidad Bhojpuri and Caribbean Hindustani. They talk about the arrival of South Asian languages alongside indentured labourers in the mid-1800s, as well as the emergence of Bhojpuri as a lingua franca on the sugar estates in Trini...
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Are East Indian women better off in the Caribbean now than they would have been had their ancestors remained in South Asia?

Vinay sits down with Patricia Mohammed to answer, or at least make sense of, this very complex question. They begin with the circumstances prompting the arrival of Indian women in the Caribbean from India. It turns out that while indentureship certainly oppressed women, it gave them some unpreced...
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