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Taneja with her classmates at her all-girls high school in Trinidad

BY TANEJA YOUNG
I was born in Barbados and grew up on the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. Trinidad has a rich and varied culture, having been colonized by the Spanish, the French and finally the British. Under British rule, indentured labourers from India and slaves from Africa came to work on the sugar-cane plantations. [...]