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The ROAR of Ravi Dev (The following opening paragraphs were originally published in 2006. The more things change…) “Guyana is once more demonstrating the basic truth of the insight that...

My old friend Dool Hanomansingh has made an eloquent plea for Indo Guyanese living abroad to return “home” to the promised land and work to build a homeland for Indians...

Guyanese are saying that Justices Franklyn Holder and Retired Claudette Singh are now showing their true colors as agents of the PNC acting in the interests of as well as...

ROAR of Ravi Dev In our 1990, paper, “For a New Political Culture”, we introduced the notion of the “Ethnic Security Dilemmas” (ECD’s) as structuring the political behaviour of Guyana’s...

The leadership of APNU (PNC) is spreading a dangerous rumor on the ground among its supporters that the American CIA is backing Granger. APNU has been telling supporters not to...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Over the last year and a half, and especially during the post NCM maneuvers and elections hijinks, many commentators have either marveled or bemoaned David Granger’s...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Analyzing the French coup of 1851, in which Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte assumed dictatorial power over the French state, Marx reflected on the role of the individual in...

ROAR of Ravi Dev About a decade or so ago, the philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s book, with the seemingly most non-philosophically sounding title, “On Bullshit”, became a NY Times bestseller. With...

I looked at a video of Peter Minshall’s supposedly mesmerizing king and queen of Carnival costumes 2020 and had to exclaim to myself what a piece of junk! For something...

Both major parties, PPP and APNU, are confident of victory in Monday’s elections in Guyana. But which one will win? Each small party is confident of at least a seat....