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Ayurveda centre opens at Indian mission in
Trinidad
Monday July 30, 2012 06:19:06 PM,
Paras Ramoutar,
IANS
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Port of Spain: The
Indian High Commission in Trinidad and Tobago has launched a
centre for ayurveda following a growing interest in the Caribbean
in the traditional Indian system of medicine.
The centre was inaugurated by Trinidad and Tobago's Minister of
Local Government Surujattan Rambachan a few days ago.
The minister also announced that a Chair of Ayurvedic Medicine
will be launched soon at the University of the West Indies in St.
Augustine.
He said this would be the second such academic programme to be
launched at the university, the first being the Chair of Asian
Studies.
Rambachan said the steps followed several agreements signed
between Trinidad and Tobago's Indian-origin Prime Minister Kamla
Persad-Bissessar and her Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh during
Persad-Bissessar's historic visit to India in January.
Rambachan said relations between India and Trinidad and Tobago
have moved swiftly from mere cultural and religious to that of
in-depth economic, trade and investment.
The former minister of foreign affairs also heaped praises on
Indian High Commissioner Malay Mishra, calling him "the
entrepreneurial high commissioner".
Mishra said Trinidad and Tobago was the second country outside
India to have an ayurveda centre after Malaysia.
He said people can visit the centre and access all forms of
information, brochures, publications and videos on ayurveda.
Mishra said opening of the centre followed a conference on the
subject here last November, and from which, "there were widespread
interests and requests", all of which were encouraging.
Anusha Vaideeswaran, an ayurveda practitioner from Mumbai, gave a
scholastic overview of the traditional system.
Around 44 percent of Trinidad and Tobago's population has its
genesis from India's Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states, who came
during 1845 to 1917 to work in the agricultural sector after the
freedom of African slaves.
(Paras Ramoutar can be contacted at paras_ramoutar@yahoo.com)
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