Phagwa and Nation Building in a plural nation: From Assimilation to Multiculturalism
Most of us know the Prahalad stories about the origins of Holi - or “Phagua”, as it is known in the Bhojpuri belt from...
Read moreMost of us know the Prahalad stories about the origins of Holi - or “Phagua”, as it is known in the Bhojpuri belt from...
Read moreGrowing up in Guyana in the 1950’s, more so on a sugar estate - Uitvlugt - it was impossible to...
Read moreROAR of Ravi Dev One feature of Indian immigration to Guyana as indentured labour was the painstaking records that were kept...
Read moreROAR of Ravi Dev Enamoured neither of travel nor mega gatherings, in the case of some Indian diaspora events, I...
Read moreIn his letter seeking to rebut assertions made in my last column, “Addressing Objections to a Federalised Guyana”, Mr. Vincent...
Read moreROAR for Guyana Most of the objections to the federalist proposals have come from African-Guyanese. This is a remarkable position,...
Read more(Granger vowed to fulfil Burnham’s legacy. This is that 7-point legacy.) ROAR for Guyana First: a single mass party, led...
Read more(The following was part of a longer paper, “For a New Political Culture” presented to the three major political parties...
Read moreROAR of Ravi Dev During the ERC/UN/UG’s “Conversation of Ethnic Relations”, there was a heated exchange on the propriety of...
Read moreI was asked to make a presentation by the ERC in a “National Conversation on Ethnic Relations”, specifically on “How...
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