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Connecting With Suriname, Guyana Through Diaspora
NEW DELHI: Helping upgrade a much-needed mortuary, sending a Ramlila troupe to exchange ideas with the local troupes there or providing expertise in renewable energy - India is actively engaging with its large diaspora in the small and distant countries of Suriname and Guyana in meaningful ways.
Suriname, which has a 37 percent population comprising Hindustani people, descendants of the Indians, mostly from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, who went to the South American nation as indentured labour in the 19th century, celebrates Dussehra and Diwali with gusto.
Its over 27 percent Hindu population has kept alive the Ramlila tradition of enactment of the epic Ramayana that was prevalent in India over 150 years ago. Now as part of reengaging with the Indian diaspora, numbering over 250,000, India is planning to send a Ramlila team to Suriname, off the North Atlantic Ocean, while a troupe from that country is to also come to India.
The Ramlila tradition practised in Suriname is believed to be the same that the Indians took with them over 150 years ago, and has not changed, an official source told IANS.
India is also helping the diaspora in Suriname in its efforts to trace their Indian roots through exchange of archival material.
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Source: IANS
