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...WARRIORS! Fans love a long shot. The top underdog this year: Trinidad and Tobago, the smallest nation to qualify, whose gutsy Soca Warriors earned a surprising tie against Sweden...
...before branching out on his own. "He was very strong in numbers," recalls Sisir Bajoria, a fellow Xavier's student. Mittal split from his father and two younger brothers in 1994 for reasons they don't discuss. He took the international arm, with interests in Indonesia and Trinidad and Tobago, and the rest of the family kept the domestic Indian business. Since then, Mittal has left the other side of the family behind. Over the past five years he has made about 20 acquisitions, buying up a network of steel producers in former communist countries including Kazakhstan, Romania and Ukraine...
Locals in Trinidad and Tobago call it "the big lime"-Caribbean slang for a serious shindig. But the national semifinals of Panorama, an annual music festival that this year takes place on Feb. 12, serve up something headier than fruit juice. The exuberant competition pits around 30 professional steel bands of 60 to 120 members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens...
...islands of Trinidad and Tobago, the birthplace of calypso, take their steel bands, or "pan," very seriously. The first pans, or steel drums, were fashioned out of biscuit tins and garbage-can lids by street musicians in the 1930s. They were later made of steel 55-gallon oil drums left behind by the U.S. military during World War II. Pan evolved into Trinidad's musical pride and signature sound after the first Panorama competition was held in 1963. The Panorama finals competition is for serious calypso purists, and takes place on the Queen's Park Savannah in the capital, Port...
Locals in Trinidad and Tobago call it "the big lime" - Caribbean slang for a serious shindig. But the national semifinals of Panorama, an annual music festival that this year takes place on Feb. 12, serve up something headier than fruit juice. The exuberant competition pits around 30 professional steel bands of 60 to 120 members against each other in front of a crowd of 15,000. Fans sing, cheer their favorite bands, and catch up with friends and neighbors while picnicking on pelau (a rice and peas mixture), macaroni pie, souse (a spicy soup made from either pigs' or chickens...