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In the past 10 years within my family, extended families and those of my friends, relatives and even prominent Hindus, many of the practicing older Hindus are passing away and...

To most orthodox Indians with a sense of ethnic pride if not bigotry, the belief that not everybody who looked like an Indian and wore an Indian name was Indian...

He misquoted Machiavelli when he said ‘politics has a morality of its own.’ I’ll misquote them both by saying politics has a reality of its own. Over the coming days/weeks...

Some years ago, I came across Panday and he excitedly told me how he was shopping at South Hall in London and came across a book of Hindi names (not...

From Ravi Maharaj Basdeo Panday once told the story of one of his friends, a lifelong UNC supporter who was dying and hospitalized at the time. When Mr. Panday went...

On New Year’s night, the nation experienced a tremendous loss as we learnt of the passing of Mr. Basdeo Panday. Mr. Panday came from very humble beginnings to become an...

National Transformation Alliance Media release Prime Minister Rowley’s official press release today can only be seen in one light, and that is as an admission of failure with regards to...

From JAI PARASRAM For those of us who have known Basdeo Panday for decades (I first met him in 1972), it is sad passing for a man who struggled for...

SUBHAS Panday remembers the grinding poverty he, his brother Basdeo and other siblings faced. “Bas was born in 1933, just 16 years after the end of indentureship and my parents...

It is end of year and Caribbean people in North America and Europe reminisce about the enjoyment of the year-end season as they remember it and that continues to be...