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Almost every year when Indian Arrival Day comes around we are sure to see another idiot, always an Indian, saying we shouldn't celebrate it. That indentureship system was just like...

ROAR of Ravi Dev One feature of Indian immigration to Guyana as indentured labour was the painstaking records that were kept by the colonial regime following the abolition of slavery. Technically,...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Enamoured neither of travel nor mega gatherings, in the case of some Indian diaspora events, I rouse myself to participate every decade or so. They do...

Mohandas k. Gandhi (October 2, 1869 - January 30,1948) was born in Asia, educated in Europe, and after a period of political apprenticeship matured in Africa. He never touched the...

In his letter seeking to rebut assertions made in my last column, “Addressing Objections to a Federalised Guyana”, Mr. Vincent Alexander claims that “Federalism is justifiable only where diversity is...

ROAR for Guyana Most of the objections to the federalist proposals have come from African-Guyanese. This is a remarkable position, since minorities across the globe from Assam to Zimbabwe have...

(Granger vowed to fulfil Burnham’s legacy. This is that 7-point legacy.) ROAR for Guyana First: a single mass party, led by a dictator.  While Burnham allowed other parties to exist during...

(The following was part of a longer paper, “For a New Political Culture” presented to the three major political parties (the PNC, PPP, and WPA) in 1990 to serve as...

ROAR of Ravi Dev During the ERC/UN/UG’s “Conversation of Ethnic Relations”, there was a heated exchange on the propriety of defining oneself as “Guyanese” versus an “ethnically hyphenated Guyanese”. I...

Christmas is renowned as a Christian celebration commemorating the birth of Christ. It is also celebrated in many countries and by countless numbers of non-Christians who take part in much...