Tag: ROAR of Ravi Dev

Politically, Guyana is a country like a bear caught in a trap and can only eat away its trapped foot in a desperate attempt to free itself. One reason is ...

Now that the PPP government is rectifying some of the wrongs that had been piled on top of Walter Rodney’s 1980 assassination – such as rejecting the cause of death ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...