Event

Caribbean Hindustani, in collaboration with The Alma Jordan Library (AJL), hosts a presentation on Trinidad Bhojpuri: Decoding Identity, featuring Dr. Visham Bhimull. 

The event takes place on May 28 at 5pm in the Audio Visual Room, 3^rd Floor, The Alma Jordan Library (AJL).

Kindly RSVP by noon on Monday May 27 by emailing Kumaree.Ramtahal@sta.uwi.edu or call 662-2002, exts. 82263/82009/82134.

 Check out an interview with Dr. Vishan Bhimull during CCN TV6’s Morning Edition on May 20 by clicking:

• Trinidad Bhojpuri Part 1: https://vimeo.com/337288071
• Trinidad Bhojpuri Part 2: https://vimeo.com/337288341

About Trinidad Bhojpuri

Trinidad Bhojpuri has been shrouded in mystery since the language was lost in speech among the descendants of the indentured laborers in Trinidad and Tobago.  Its remnant vocabulary remains as footprints of its existence present in our Trinidad English Creole (Bhimull 2019).  Let's discover the “Trinidad Bhojpuri DNA in our identity.”

About Dr. Visham Bhimull

Dr. Visham Bhimull is a medical practitioner and post-graduate student in the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS), UWI, St. Augustine.  He holds an M.B.B.S (UWI) and Dip. Family Medicine (UWI).  He is a language enthusiast and has done extensive research on the Trinidad Bhojpuri language, in addition to its wider Caribbean Hindustani perspective.  He has presented at cultural conferences in the Caribbean and the Netherlands on Trinidad Bhojpuri.  He conducts interviews with the last remaining speakers of Bhojpuri in the country in order to document the language so that it may be preserved for posterity.