Tag: Guyana

The difficulty in analyzing "racism" or "ethnicization" can be illustrated in a recent debate on the sugar industry. Attorney General, Hon Anil Nandlall, expressed shock over Opposition MP, Mr. Khemraj ...

(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 ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev This concludes the presentation to the “National Conversation on Ethnic Relations” s with proposals to improve our ethnic relations. Below are the proposals to which I ...

I was asked to make a presentation by the ERC in a “National Conversation on Ethnic Relations”, specifically on “How can we improve ethnic relations in Guyana?” Actually, it is ...

In perusing the composition of the staff at the Faculty of Education and Humanities of University of Guyana, there seems a great ethnic imbalance that needs immediate redress. Indians, Amerindians, ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev 12-1 There is no question that the citizens of a society must see it as a “common venture” even as we reject conceptions of “nation” that ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Ever so often I get this feeling during the 30 years I’ve returned to Guyana that I am in a time loop. Take this claim that ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev This article is being adapted from something I wrote in 2010, before the 2011 elections, and which called for a new narrative than the conflicting, aggressive ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev After participating in several discussions over ZOOM recently I discovered that most Indian Guyanese are very impatient about discussing the past. They forget William Faulkner’s aphorism, ...