Tag: L. Siddhartha Orie

When you come proverbially from way  behind god’s back in a place called Princes Town and your book ends up on the NY shelves of the eminent and prestigious Barnes ...

Sorry, this is not about the Charles Bronson vigilante movie of the seventies, this is about Rowley’s collapsing after his rambunctious night of pre-carnival, panyard feting. At most times, when ...

So Kamla likes to pontificate that the voice of the people is the voice of god as if she’s on the pulpit and yet when the Princes Town people offered ...

When on August 29, 2020 I posted my political dream team headed by Justice Frank Seepersad, I included in that list Richard Sookhai as the Minister of labour. Richie, as ...

From ever, we have heard the platitude, self-praise is no recommendation and we have bought it wholesale and retailed it at the best boxing-day discount price in town. But is ...

When Russia’s Khrushchev installed nuclear missiles in Cuba, obviously it was not for peaceful purposes: Khrushchev was looking for a fight with the younger Kennedy of America, believing he would ...

Because we live in a small matchbox, sardine tin, fig leaf (lesser than a banana republic) we have a crab-in–the–barrel psychology. We fight for space as if oxygen is running ...

So rightly, Panday says that the President should be elected by the citizens and immediately citizens want to know why he didn’t make that constitutional change when he was PM? ...

The bad thing about Phillip Alexander is that he might be too good to be true. The good thing about Phillip is what he is pontificating is one hundred percent ...

For more than a hundred years of cricket, the game was played in the most pedestrian manner – of batsmen prodding and playing forward defensive, only occasionally striking the ball ...