Shas­tri Boodan

In a dis­play of uni­ty and de­vo­tion, more than 1,000 peo­ple dressed in red took to the streets of cen­tral Trinidad, march­ing along Freeport, Todds Road, yes­ter­day. The event, led by Pun­dit Kr­ishen Ramdeen head of the Isha Or­gan­i­sa­tion of T&T, was a call for har­mo­ny in the Hin­du com­mu­ni­ty.

The four-kilo­me­tre walk from the Trinidad Sevashram Sangh to the Isha Or­gan­i­sa­tion and Ashram at Rod­ney Road was deeply spir­i­tu­al. Devo­tees chant­ed in rev­er­ence to Lord Hanu­man, the Hin­du de­ity sym­bol­is­ing strength and de­vo­tion.

Pun­dit Ramdeen em­pha­sised the sig­nif­i­cance of the gath­er­ing, re­veal­ing that 27 Hin­du or­gan­i­sa­tions had unit­ed in this sym­bol­ic jour­ney, aim­ing to dis­solve di­vi­sions and fos­ter a stronger com­mu­ni­ty spir­it.

“T&T is beau­ti­ful, T&T is di­verse—that’s who we are,” he said, high­light­ing the coun­try’s rich cul­tur­al fab­ric.

The choice of red was not a co­in­ci­dence—it rep­re­sents the pow­er and en­er­gy of Lord Hanu­man. With Hanu­man Jayan­ti just around the cor­ner on April 12, the event set the tone for the up­com­ing cel­e­bra­tions.

Kick­ing off at 6 am, the march was fur­ther en­riched by a per­for­mance from the MC Bean Ram­leela Group, whose dra­mat­ic por­tray­al of sa­cred tales added to the event’s vi­bran­cy.