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A history-making encounter

Feb 28, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
I have long been an ardent admirer of Dr. Clem Seecharan who, on this occasion, displayed the substantive depth of his scholarship in a profoundly educative exposition titled: “El Dorado Complex in the shaping of the Indo-Guyanese: A Revisionist Perspective”.
Attending early allowed me to interact with the Professor (courtesy of my buddy Nowrang Persaud) who, ‘Clem’ publicly acknowledged, tutored him in his early Berbice days, added much to the excitement of my evening.
The comprehensiveness of the intellectual discourse which followed challenges my ability to adequately translate in this brief missive. I can only attempt to extricate the underlying, as well as explicit message he delivered to a large and appreciative audience of Indo- and Afro-Guyanese, and other nationals: which was that we, separately and together, should confront the historicity (so amply portrayed) of psyches embedded  in insecurity; climb out of the tunnels of our respective ethnicities, develop the courage and capacity to embrace a vision of a truly productive multi-cultural society; and initiate a meaningful conversation aimed determinedly at transforming our sovereign state into a unified nation.
His presentation was an inspiring appeal to the audience, albeit bereft of the presence of political leaders – indicating a lack of intellectual interest and capability required to contribute to the rehabilitation of the current defective state of governance. There was that persistent reminder: where there is no vision, the people perish.
I am grateful to Professor Clem Seecharan’ s courage in articulating this reminder – at the thoughtful instance of the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports on his own, as if isolated from the rest of the counterpart political management structure.
E.B. John

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