This year's In­di­an Ar­rival Break­fast–Chokha Fest 3–to be held on May 5, at Nu Im­age Sim­plex Com­plex in Princes Town, promis­es to be a very ex­cit­ing event with sev­en Chokhas and Sa­da roti. Ra­mash Ram­sumair, pro­pri­etor of Nu Im­age Sim­plex Com­plex, and TAPASYA will host the 2013 edi­tion of Chokha Fest.

Break­fast will be served from 8 to 9 am, fol­lowed by a short pro­gramme that high­lights as­pects of East In­di­an cul­ture. Min­is­ter of Na­tion­al Di­ver­si­ty and So­cial In­te­gra­tion Dr Clifton De Couteau will ad­dress the gath­er­ing af­ter par­tic­i­pat­ing in break­fast with at­ten­dees. As the name of his min­istry in­di­cates, De Couteau is ex­pect­ed to ad­dress is­sues re­lat­ing to In­di­an Ar­rival Day, di­ver­si­ty and in­te­gra­tion.

Among the oth­er speak­ers on the pro­gramme will be fea­tured pre­sen­ter See­ta Per­sad, jour­nal­ist, play­wright and dancer who will speak on Pre­serv­ing and Pro­mot­ing East In­di­an Cul­ture in Trinidad in the 21st Cen­tu­ry.

Oth­er pre­sen­ters in­clude Loak­nath Dube, Shamshu Deen, Louis Homer, Dr Kris Ram­per­sad, Sid­dhartha Orie, Aar­ti Jan­ki and Doolarchan Hanoomans­ingh.

Dube will re­late the sto­ry of an in­den­tured im­mi­grant while Deen, an em­i­nent ge­neal­o­gist, will speak on fam­i­ly re­unions. Homer, a Her­itage spe­cial­ist, will speak about the old­est Tem­ple in Trinidad (which in­ci­den­tal­ly is lo­cat­ed in Princes Town) and the need to pre­serve such ed­i­fices.

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