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ROAR of Ravi Dev After I had quit my job in NYC in 1988 and returned to Guyana as a member of a small think tank called the “Jaguar Committee ...

The ROAR of Ravi Dev (The following opening paragraphs were originally published in 2006. The more things change…) “Guyana is once more demonstrating the basic truth of the insight that ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev In our 1990, paper, “For a New Political Culture”, we introduced the notion of the “Ethnic Security Dilemmas” (ECD’s) as structuring the political behaviour of Guyana’s ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Over the last year and a half, and especially during the post NCM maneuvers and elections hijinks, many commentators have either marveled or bemoaned David Granger’s ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Analyzing the French coup of 1851, in which Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte assumed dictatorial power over the French state, Marx reflected on the role of the individual in ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev About a decade or so ago, the philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s book, with the seemingly most non-philosophically sounding title, “On Bullshit”, became a NY Times bestseller. With ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Last night, one of the biggest festival in the Hindu calendar was commemorated – Maha Shivratri. My family stayed up all night to offer the prescribed ...

ROAR for Guyana It is important to remember that next Sunday, February 23rd, is “Republic Day”, not “Mash”. While Independence was given to us by Britain, Republic Day was chosen ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev               One of the most poignant and persistent cries heard around Guyana – especially around elections time – is, “Why do we have to hear about Africans ...

ROAR of Ravi Dev Observing the rhetoric deployed in the blogsphere, social media and the letter-pages of the newspapers, I have been struck by the ubiquitous invocation of the trope ...