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Latchmie Kumarie Vainmati Kallicharran (5 June 1951 – 20 January 2002) was a writer who was born in Guyana. She was one of the pioneers of Indo-Guyanese cultural awareness. Her use of radio and television for cultural promotion was innovative. She also organized and presented cultural programmes, the first being Lalla-Rookh. She staged her first show in the early 1970s when there was considerable resistance within the ruling PNC to regard Indo-Guyanese culture as being truly Guyanese.
Her work included the organization of dance and music shows, the organization of an important photographic exhibition of Indo-Guyanese history and artifacts, and the publishing of Shraadanjali (1986), a small anthology of Indo-Guyanese poetry.
She died in a fire in early 2002.