Tag: L. Siddhartha Orie

How is it possible to decide that one from among many is more equal than the rest; it is the question that inspired the phrase primus inter pares – which ...

Naipaulian Awardees IV: This Season’s Grand Finale. This odyssey into the world of the Indo-Trinis has been so mythical in nature that it ranked in transcendence and excitement with readers’ ...

Proving that our Indo-Trinis are an essential segment of our country’s intelligentsia even though they have remained as shadows in the background of society seemingly still in a state of ...

Kenny Rogers’ coward was just Tommy, one person, but what we have is an entire society of Yella Bellies. We are accepting with hardly a whimper authoritarian oppression as if ...

As promised in my first list of Awardees, and to appease those in panic-mode bothering that I left out deserving persons, here is that promised other ‘tranche’: For Literature, the ...

Because this undertaking to recognise Indo-Trinis with a Naipaulian award for excellence in their multitudinous, eclectic fields of endeavour has proven to be a spectacular success with glitterati emerging in ...

Over the years when awards were made by the State and we saw every time just a handful of names from the Indo-Trini community, the country was made to think, ...

Because I am sometimes the epitome of the adages: what should be done today should not be put off until tomorrow; that we should make hay while the sun shines ...

Afro-American memoirist and poet, Maya Angelou famously said, “I got my own back” apparently implying that as a non-white person in a country where equality was not a given, she ...

Afro-American memoirist and poet, Maya Angelou famously said, “I got my own back” apparently implying that as a non-white person in a country where equality was not a given, she ...