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V.S. Naipaul says it best
Dear Editor,
I was not inclined to respond to Rajendra Rampersaud’s first letter which appeared in the press under the title: “Boysie Ramkarran had more impact on parliamentary proceedings than Burnham did”.
This letter represents a highly subjective point of view and recalls the well known PPP propaganda line against Mr. Burnham. Suffice it to say that there are many people in and out of Guyana who have recognised Mr. Burnham’s formidable reputation as a scholar, parliamentarian and orator. Moreover, were Mr. Boysie Ramkarran alive, I do not think he would have compared himself with Mr. Burnham. In the judgement of the PNC, both men in significantly different ways made major contributions to the development of the parliamentary art of oratory and repartee.
Mr. Rampersaud tries to recover some degree of intellectual respectability in his letter which appeared in the Stabroek News of February 27, 2009 but he again questions Mr. Burnham oratorical skills.
I can best put this matter to rest by quoting from V.S. Naipaul’s “The Middle Passage”:
“Mr. Burnham is the finest public speaker I have heard. He speaks slowly, precisely, incisively; he makes few gestures; his head is thrust forward in convinced, confiding, simple but never condescending exposition; he is utterly calm and his fine voice is so nicely modulated that the listener never tires or ceases to listen.”
Oscar Clarke
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