But talking to Boysie over the months I realised that apart from Diwali celebrations he ain’t know one fart about being Hindu. I’m sure he doesn’t remember when last he went inside a mandir. Just like my parents, he ma and baap crossed the kala pani from India and born Boysie in Trinidad. But that is where the Indianness stop.
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Ingrid Persaud (The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh)
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This kirpan came with Boysie’s Sikh baap direct from the Punjab. Most of the people I knew on the estate came from Bihar, or, like my parents, Uttar Pradesh.
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Ingrid Persaud (The Lost Love Songs of Boysie Singh)