Tag: Ravi Dev

I never had the opportunity to meet Walter Rodney. I had heard of his ban by the Shearer government from reentering Jamaica in 1968 when returning from a Black Writers ...

On May 26, Guyana once again commemorated the “Independence” that was given to the PNC government by the British in 1966 after engineered the latter’s victory in the Dec 7,1964, ...

We have just commemorated the 55th Anniversary of our Independence which was granted to Forbes Burnham and the PNC after they colluded with the British and the Americans to oust the ...

I have held off to date from commenting on the remarks of Ms Walton-Desir that has precipitated such a heated debate on race and racism in Guyana. On a social ...

One of the challenges facing the Indian Guyanese community is a stereotypical, essentialized perception by other groups. One often wonders who is it that is being addressed in some exchanges. ...

I recently participated in a virtual conference on Phagwa that involved academics, activists and the general public from India and most of the 18 or so  countries to which Indentured ...

Today, with its insistence that the democratically elected PPP government isn’t “legitimate” – even though it has lost its “built-in” Indian-based majority - several leaders in the African Guyanese community ...

Most of us know the Prahalad stories about the origins of Holi - or “Phagua”, as it is known in the Bhojpuri belt from where most Indians in the Caribbean originated. But we can also look ...

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 ...