what a fraud

the record here on GNI exposes u as an inartful liar and highly ignorant bigot prancing around in faux Indo-nationalist garb burbling about "struggles of [] forefathers" to camouflage your low morals and backwardness

puuhlease . . .

Yuji Bhai (there...my Indo credentials), stop being hyperbolic. No one can deny;s one's truth. You're Indian like me. But don't tell me that people in India would treat you and me the same and treat all the other different Indians in India and in Desi land the same. This is why one has to not only proclaim one's Indian-ness, but do not use it to cover up other inadequacies, of which there are many that befell Indians. In the Guyana context it was to highlight the propagation of divisiveness by using the Indian thing that made him bring the other attributes of his Guyanese existence (which no one can deny). And you fools berate him for thinking he denounces his Indian-ness. And now you come here shouting your pride oin being an Indian as if your Indian-ness is under assault. No, it ain't. But you do Indians a dis-service. I probably got more scars than you in being an Indian in Guyana but I don't act like it's being taken away from me by Moses or Freddie. I  say I am an Indian from strength. You say you are an Indian from weakness.

Kari

You are entitled to your opinion.

I am proud to be Indo. It is ok with me if you are ashamed of or uncomfortable with your identity. I am not.

I could care less about your so called scars, I am proud to carry my scars and I am not afraid to call a spade a spade.

I could care less about what people from India "think" of me. I am proud of who I am and do not require any reassurances like you and others who perhaps suffer from low self esteem about their Indo Identity and discredit their own.

I have stated that I am Guyanese but will NEVER be ashamed to speak of my Indo identity.

Indos and for a matter of fact, no one can ever do a disservice to their identity by declaring that they are proud of it.

Afro Americans are proud of their Identity and I quite admire it. They do not hesitate to talk about their struggles and achievements. There is nothing wrong about Afro Americans being proud of who they are.

Let me correct you, I am Indian from my birth and strength. I survived and spoke out against two Black dictators in Guyana. I am proud of it and I am not afraid to speak out against what they did to us. Perhaps you are afraid to ruffle the feathers of your newfound friends. I am not.

As for Moses, he publicly declared that he is not Indian and it is for History to be the judge.

Some how these ole insecure Indo men believe that to be Indo one must be subservient to PPP. What a piece of low IQed crap!

When you peddle "blackman lazy", "blackman a kill ahbie", and when you celebrate the exclusion of non Indians during the Jagdeo/Ramotar regimes you don't embrace being "Guyanese", so cut the crap.

You are NOT Guyanese, unless you see yourself within the context of this ethnically diverse nation, and you embrace the totality of what this means.

You are full of crap.

Indos nor Afros consider you worthy of anything nor of any social or economic value to them. 

That is the reason why any government of yesterday or today will not even consider your employment as a garbage collector.

So said our little ole pot belly Indo man ...what makes you think I want govt employment?

It is not what you think.

It is a fact that you are of ZERO value to ANY government past or present.

After winning the presidency, the PNC kicked you to the curb like a piece of garbage.

1.  African Americans see themselves as an AMERICAN people, and fight for the right to contribute and to benefit from this.  Their battle has been for INCLUSION.  99% of them don't have the slightest interest in the African continent, nor any desire to identify with those who live there.

2. You see yourself as an India centered person living in a far off land, as if you are an exile.  You think that your culture is "pure" and you seek to defend it from being "defiled" by others.  The problem is that very few people in Guyana, INCLUDING YOU, live in cultural isolation.

How do Indo Guyanese speak?  NOT Bhojpuri, Hindi, or Urdu, but creolese and English.  They adopted and adapted the speech from the colonials, and from the Creole Guyanese (African and mixed, and later Portuguese), and forgot that of their ancestors.

So how can you claim to be "Indian".  All you can claim to be is a Guyanese of Indian descent.  This is a FACT, and not a sign of self hatred.  The self hatred in fact is your DENIAL and repudiation of the cultures that Indo Caribbean peoples generated in their new lands.  You think it degraded because it isn't "pure," and because it contains within it influences of other ethnic groups.

You probably have no idea as to what "pure" Indian culture is.

Balahoo Brahmin...things are not what they seem on the surface .

For a man who writes articles in the Stabroek New, is this your best response ? I pity a reject like you.

Very well said. These morons think they are still live in UP and Bihar.

Why am I proud to be Guyanese.

Because I can go to a party and eat the foods of many different cultures and view all of it as MINE. In fact I told this to a white American, who boasted about all the ethnic foods that one can eat in NYC.

Yes he can, but can he claim these foods as an integral part of who he is, and how much does he know about the cultural contexts of these foods, given that he wasn't raised alongside those who cook it.

Pity that Ravi Dev, and the rest of the Indo KKK group are so longing for cultural "purity," so dismissive of the cultural diversity and continuums implied in creole cultures, and so insistent that Guyana has tribes which live in separate boxes, lacking any obligation beyond their tribal context.

Yuji: What nonsense are you talking about again. Where did I mention "pure" Indian Culture ? Man, for the last time, get a pair of reading glasses. You are full of crap.

Your whole rant about your "culture" did imply "purity"

1.  There is no unique culture or value systems which bind all Indo Guyanese.

2.   Indo Guyanese, live within a multi cultural context just like people from other ethnicities.  It is also a fact that racists like you will condemn those who draw pride from being multicultural in orientation by calling them "self hating" Indians.

For 23 years Indian dictators abused blacks the same way as the African dictator abused Indians.

The fact that you don't want to discuss this fact shows that you have no interest in the fate of Guyanese.  You do NOT see the fate of Indians being pretty much bound into that of other Guyanese.

So spare us your Indo KKK indignation.

Afro Guyanese intellectuals DO NOT see Africans as being this separate and isolated group with some unique culture which differentiates them from others, and neither do black Americans. So don't excuse your racism for their own demand for equality.

Your racist and anti Indo crap will not be tolerated.

Many racists and anti Indo like yourself attempted to prevent us from declaring our pride in our identity and have failed. 

Please try again.

Oh yes.

1.  When you scream "black man lazy".

2.   When you boast about your cultural "purity", implying that every Indo Guyanese lives within some monolith.

3.  When you demonize blacks as violent criminals with no positive to contribute.

4.  When you refuse to admit the role that Indians have in our ethnic distrust and deny that the PPP has done every thing possible to earn the hatred directed against it by blacks and mixed people.

To you all this isn't racist, but to condemn these attitudes is.

David Hinds, Nigel Hughes and other are proud Afro Guyanese.  They discuss the role of Afro Guyanese in Guyana's ethnic morass, even as the condemn that of Indians.

You sir aren't proud.  You merely seek an excuse to peddle your bigotry.

I feel same about the food. But I am not so sure why I should be proud. Guyana has failed. It is a failed third world backwater. The pre-independence leaders and the present derivatives have failed my generation. They never fought for independence. The Brits wanted out. All this celebration they are planning next year is just a waste of money.