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The Gandhi issue again
Dear Editor,
Mr Freddie Kissoon is an academically able man and the only reason why he did not receive his Doctorate which he had de facto completed was that he was banned from Canada at that time.
Many of those who disparagingly say that Mr Kissoon does not have a Doctorate would readily admit that had he not been shut out of Canada and as a result, his university, at that critical time, he would have been awarded his degree.
He now has to earn his living by writing an almost daily article in Kaieteur News and this is no easy task. So Mr Kissoon will often have to write what occurs to him in journalist fashion and produce his column to earn his daily bread.
In the circumstances, no one could expect him to be uniformly brilliant, or not contradictory or not to have occasionally crossed the red line.
In the last two or three years, I believe Mr K. had been subject to more than usual pressures and this had likely resulted in his crossing the red line a number of times. Two such jumping over the precipice is when he spoke of the 38 senior Indian public servants without researching into the details of such persons and not being able to cite any comparatives to support his thesis.
The other and more serious faux pas made by Mr K. is when he recently wrote that Mahatma Gandhi had homosexual tendencies. This absurd statement disgusted thousands of people in Guyana since such a statement is baseless and they would scarcely ever forgive him. Many such people were once his supporters. Some years ago, in Europe, some young people were saying the same thing about Lord Jesus Christ and in Scandinavia a film about “Jesus the Gay” was produced!
Mr K. , in his own interest, should do damage control and should choose whatever methodology therefor. He could, for example, fully and properly quote Joseph Lelyveld from whose book he got the idea but which author firmly and emphatically said that “Gandhiji was no homosexual”.
I hope Mr K. frees himself of the burden of insulting the memory of a supremely great man and the hurt and disgust he unnecessarily caused so many persons and try to limit the adverse Karmic reaction which he has so carelessly brought upon himself.
P. Ramlall
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