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 | | As was the case in most of the then progressive nationalist parties of the so-called underdeveloped world struggling to break the back of colonialism and imperialist domination, the grassroots women took to the forefront to make the sacrifices and virtually carry the movement on their shoulders. |
 | | Growing up in the Tunapuna of the '50s and '60s, it was not uncommon to see funerals of that obscure Hindu sect of Black Indians who pranced and danced in joyous pleasure on the way to the cemetery and cried mournfully at births. |
 | | Tunapuna was the home at one time or another of people such as Learie Constantine, CLR James, Sir Courtney Hannays, Sir Pelham Warner, the Narinesignhs, the Rikkis, the Padarathsinghs, the Seeteerams, the Patels, "Effel" Mohammed, and even the well-known Marxist, Holassie, all fiercely and instinctive democratic if not "republican" in spirit. |
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