MEDIA RELEASE – Book on Trinidad's Hindu Civil Rights Leader to be launched
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The Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha (SDMS)
Eastern Main Road, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
April 1
4
, 2016
*MEDIA RELEASE*
A book entitled *The Hindu View of Trinidad and Tobago: Selected articles
by Sat Maharaj *has just been published. It is
compiled
by Dr. Kumar Mahabir, an anthropologist and the same author of *Sat
Maharaj: Hindu Civil Rights Leader of Trinidad & Tobago* (2014).
Sat is a religious and cultural leader in Trinidad and Tobago. He is the
Secretary General of the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, the major Hindu
organisation in the multi-ethnic society. Sat is hailed as a Hindu civil
rights leader of the twin-island republic, and as the most influential and
longest-serving spokesman for Hindus outside of India.
The book comprises a collection of Sat’s newspaper columns which were
originally published in the *Express, Newsday *and *Guardian,* the three
daily newspapers in the twin-island republic. These selected columns span a
period of 20 years from 1996 to 2016.
*The Hindu View of Trinidad and Tobago* consists of 108 articles organised
thematically into eight sections: Politics, Education, Culture, Religion,
History, Icons, Society and the Maha Sabha. The articles address local,
national, regional and international issues that are of interest to general
readers as well as researchers and scholars.
Dr. Koenraad Elst is quoted in the book as saying: “Sat Maharaj has
developed Hinduism in Trinidad and Tobago into a vibrant religion which is
earning its rightful place in the tropical sun. This collection of articles
provides hope and promise for all those who struggle for visibility and
equality in the Hindu Diaspora.”
Elst obtained his Ph.D. from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium,
and is the author of *Decolonizing the Hindu Mind* (2001) and *Return of
the Swastika: Hate and Hysteria Versus Hindu Sanity* (2007).
At the book launch on Saturday evening, the feature speaker will be Lennox
Grant, a columnist and former editor of *Tapia, Express *and *Guardian*
newspapers. Other speakers will include Swami Aksharananda from Guyana who
obtained his Ph.D. in Religion from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in
the USA. Remarks will be made by Professor Ann Marie Bissessar, Dean of the
Faculty of Social Sciences, UWI; and Ravi Dev, a former New York attorney,
now an Indian civil rights activist in Guyana.
*The Hindu View of Trinidad and Tobago *will be launched on Saturday April
16, 2016 at 5.00 p.m. at the Lakshmi Girls’ Hindu College Auditorium, St.
Augustine, Trinidad. The launch is open to the public by reservation
ONLY. Contact:
645-2745, 645-3240, or [log in to unmask]
For additional information, contact Dr. Kumar Mahabir at 756-4961, 674-6008
or [log in to unmask]
See *attachment* for image of book covers
*END OF DOCUMENT*
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