The In­di­an High Com­mis­sion has es­tab­lished an In­dia Cor­ner at the li­brary of the Par­lia­ment, fea­tur­ing a cu­rat­ed col­lec­tion of 351 books cov­er­ing top­ics such as In­di­an poli­ty, diplo­ma­cy, econ­o­my, his­to­ry, cul­ture, and the arts.

The ex­hi­bi­tion is en­vi­sioned as a re­source cen­tre for par­lia­men­tar­i­ans and par­lia­men­tary staff, pro­vid­ing ac­cess to lit­er­a­ture that deep­ens un­der­stand­ing of In­dia’s de­mo­c­ra­t­ic and cul­tur­al land­scape.

Speak­er of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, Jagdeo Singh de­scribed the In­dia Cor­ner as “a reaf­fir­ma­tion of the long and his­toric ties be­tween In­dia and Trinidad and To­ba­go, and a tan­gi­ble sym­bol of knowl­edge ex­change.”

He not­ed that the con­tri­bu­tion by the Gov­ern­ment of In­dia stands as “a tes­ta­ment to cul­tur­al un­der­stand­ing and mu­tu­al re­spect.”

High Com­mis­sion­er of In­dia, Dr Pradeep Ra­jpuro­hit ex­pressed ap­pre­ci­a­tion to the Speak­er and Par­lia­ment of­fi­cials for fa­cil­i­tat­ing the ini­tia­tive, and pledged con­tin­ued sup­port to fur­ther en­rich the col­lec­tion with ad­di­tion­al books and lit­er­ary ma­te­ri­als in the fu­ture.

In­dia and Trinidad and To­ba­go share a long­stand­ing re­la­tion­ship root­ed in deep peo­ple-to-peo­ple ties and par­lia­men­tary col­lab­o­ra­tion.

The In­dia Cor­ner, of­fi­cials said, rep­re­sents an­oth­er step in strength­en­ing cul­tur­al link­ages and pro­mot­ing mu­tu­al un­der­stand­ing be­tween the two democ­ra­cies.