Cover image of the March 2008 issue

Volume 4 Numbers 1 and  2 March 2008


Contents



Editorial

The World of Seepersad Naipaul Brinsley Samaroo

Indian Episodes for Arrival Day Kenneth Ramchand

An interview with Jan Lowe Shinebourne Anne Marie Lee-Loy

Amnesia and Myth: Framing the Past Clem Seecharan

V.S. Naipaul as Critical Thinker Bhoendradatt Tewarie

Tribute to my father Royston Heath

Retrieving the Past: Rip Persaud  Bernadette Persaud

Shastri Maharaj: History, Myth and Beyond Bernadette Persaud

An Intuition of Reality & Identity: A picture gallery of the traditional art of Indian Guyanese   Bernadette Persaud

An interview with Ayube Hamid Khan  Ameena Gafoor and Pat Dial

The First Muslims in Guiana B.H. Khanam and R. S. Chickrie

A Critique: Guiana, 1838  Basdeo Mangru


IMAGINATIVE PROSE WRITING

From a forthcoming Novel Ameena Gafoor

An Immigrant's Lamentation : Jan Lowe Shinebourne

Song of the Sugar Canes: An Extract Sheik Sadeek


BOOK REVIEWS


Mariam Pirbhai on Cyril Dabydeen's Drums of My Flesh

Anne Marie Lee-Loy on Jan Shinebourne's Godmother and Other Stories

Frank Birbalsingh on C.F. Andrews's Impressions of British Guiana

Gretchen Dobrott Bernard on Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth, eds., Lourdes and Misrahi-Barak

Sukdev Sandhu on David Dabydeen's Molly and the Muslim Stick