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The Cutlass Magazine®️

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The Cutlass Magazine®️

@cutlassmagazine

A platform dedicated to the Indo-Caribbean community and descendants of indentureship around the world.

Caribbean and South Asia

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Joined August 2020

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Nov 11, 2025
Caribbean English is crazy because why as a young child was I using words like capsize, lackadaisical, idling, galavanting, and counterpane.
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Sep 29, 2022
Another mandir vandalized in Trinidad.
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Mar 22, 2025
Please share the notes with who missed class: ✅ Caribbean ✅ Caribbean people ✅ Caribbean community ✅ Caribbean individual ✅ Caribbean person ✅ Caribbean diaspora ❌ Caribbeans
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Aug 29, 2024
My Trinidadian mum deleting a file from her desktop: “Ah draggin he ass in de garbage.”
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Aug 10, 2021
This scene from the BBC film “The Hummingbird Tree” (1992) illustrates how the church acted as an agent of racial and religious division in Trinidad. Set in 1946, around the time universal adult suffrage was granted, it captures the prejudices towards Hindus being able to vote.
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Apr 20, 2022
On the occasion of 4/20, we must never forget how instrumental our ancestors were in propagating the recreational, medicinal, and spiritual use of marijuana in the Caribbean. Indians played such a important role that weed is still known locally by the Hindustani name “ganja”.
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Aug 20, 2023
Today the intersection of 131st Street and Liberty Avenue in New York was named “Trinidad and Tobago Street”. 📸: Sudarshan Maharaj
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Mar 22, 2025
You can be “a West Indian” and therefore we are “West Indians”. You cannot be “a Caribbean” so we are not “Caribbeans” but rather “Caribbean”. Two completely different things and language is complex. “Caribbeans” seems to only be said by those not living in the Caribbean.
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Mar 22, 2025
This will always be a debate lol but I’m still going to say say Caribbeans because if you can say West Indians you surely can say Caribbeans
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Nov 3, 2022
Do young Indo-Caribbean people know the historical and cultural significance of the “bera” (bay-ra)?
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Mar 5, 2024
When people ask me what is Indo-Caribbean and I am too tired to explain so I send them a picture of my parents:
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Jun 28, 2021
Words in 🇹🇹 that mean the same thing: + Chadon Beni (Creole) + Bandhaniya (Hindustani) + Culantro (English)
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Feb 8, 2022
Just interviewed a 100-year-old Indian lady in Trinidad and she said “kukurwa ke naam mange” (you want the dog’s name too) because I was asking too many questions 💀
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Jun 16, 2024
Happy Father’s Day to the glassmakers 🇹🇹
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Sep 6, 2024
Roy Francis Cape (1942 to 2024), the legendary calypso saxophonist from Trinidad and Tobago, has passed away. The oldest and one of the longest active band leaders in the twin island nation’s history, he will forever be remembered. May he rest in peace 🕊️🇹🇹🎷
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