A question Ravi Dev must answer

Mar 25, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
I refer to Ravi Dev’s column in yesterday’s issue of KN. He wrote that a friend asked him if he is now aligned with the government and he replied that he is not. The trouble with people like Dev is that they think they are so learned that they can use subtle language to hide under legal definitions, thus fooling people.
Dev went on to say that he once opposed the PPP Government. That is factual but it is also misleading. A fact has many dimensions some of which can contradict each other.
Before we briefly expose Ravi Dev’s deceptive politics, a word about politics in the US is relevant. There are several groups in the US that are willing to use violence against the American Government. Some have. But many African American and Hispanic organizations would be happy if these groups disappear because they are racist entities that blame the US Government for diluting white American society.
Ravi Dev came onto the scene arguing that there is a sociological anomaly in Guyana that impacts adversely on Indians and threatens the very existence of Indians and the PPP is doing nothing about it. He named it the Indian Security Dilemma.
The polemic centered on the ethnic imbalance in the security forces that could alter the structure in Guyana that could remove an Indian Government. In other words, once there is ethnic imbalance in the security forces, an Indian government may have a short life.
It was this supremacist role that caused him to win a top up parliamentary seat (meaning that he fell short but left over votes went to him and Manzoor Nadir). Indians who voted for him accepted his charge that the PPP Government was doing nothing to prevent Indians from being victimized by an African police force.
From the time he entered politics in Guyana, Dev said nothing about politics in general except to carp fanatically on the Indian security dilemma.
Early in his political career I detected this hypocritical abomination in his politics and attacked him for it. I stressed in my KN articles and in letters to the press that he had a weekly television programme and a weekly KN column but never a word from him on the massive human rights violations the PPP had committed against this nation. I always get the last laugh (forgive my chauvinistic rant) because when people turn out to be hypocrites, I point to my early warning signs which are in print. I was the only person who zeroed in on Dev and began to question the integrity of his praxis. It turned out I was right. How?
Dev knew that the PPP had committed itself to Indianizing Guyana. I don’t know if he knew about a high level meeting between the T&T Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and the leading members of the PPP about the need to make Guyana and Trinidad cultural counterpoints to an African dominated Caribbean.
Whether he was aware I don’t know, but Dev from 2005 knew that the Indianizing of Guyana was on its way. He felt there was no longer any basis for his continuation in active supremacist politics.
Now for his point that he has not joined the Government. This is semantic ego-tripping. One does not have to officially join the Government to support it. The Private Sector Commission under Ramesh Dookoo did not join the PPP Government but it was a horrible sycophantic to the PPP.
Gerry Gouveia is not a PPP member but he supports the PPP Government. But what about the Guyana Times. If a citizen becomes an advisor to the Guyana Times how can any Guyanese be so stupid not to think that you can politically separate the Times from the Government. You can legally but not politically.
The Times is not a governmental body but if one takes a job as a consultant to it, you have to know that your politics will be transformed because the newspaper is a political base for the PPP Government.
Now the question Ravi Dev must answer. Apart from his daughter who does a column for the Guyana Times under her own name (which is commendable in that she does not use a pen name), does he, Dev write for the Guyana Times?
Let Dev answer that in unambiguous ways. I go so far as to rephrase the question; does he do a column for the Guyana Times? I am not going to ask if it is daily or weekly. I am doing like Dev. I will remain within legal definitions. Here goes again – do you do a column for the Guyana Times whether in your name or a pen name?
Frederick Kissoon

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