Selected Essays 

 

• “Give the Ball to the Poet: Racism in Caribbean Literature?” Poets & Co (Florida, January 2016), Online: https://poets-and-co.blogspot.com/2016/01/give-ball-to-poet-racism-in-caribbean.html

• “Letter from Boston,” Wasafiri (London), 30:1 (March 2015), pp 11-16.

• “Judges & Judged: Guyana Prize Report 2013,” Poets & Co (Florida, January 2014), Online: https://poets-and-co.blogspot.com/2014/01/judges-and-judged-guyana-prize-judges.html

• “I Hear a Voice, Is it mine? Yogic Realism & Writing the Short Story,” World Literature Today (Oklahoma), 74:3 (Summer 2000), pp 529-539.

• “Watch my Language: From Cheddi Jagan to Martin Carter,” The Art of Martin Carter (Leeds, Eng.), Ed. Stewart Brown, Peepal Tree Press (2000), pp 359-365

• "Visiting Swami Aksharananda and Saraswatie Vidya Niketan," Poets & Co (Florida, November 2008), Online: https://poets-and-co.blogspot.com/2008/11/visiting-swami-aksharananda-and.html

• “Kevat: Waiting on Yogic Realism,” Critical Practice (New Delhi), 6:2 (June 1998), pp 89-103.

• "The Invisible Saraswattie: Indian Literature in the making of the Literary Tradition of Europe," Indo Caribbean Review (Windsor, Ontario), 3:1 (Summer 1996), pp 35-45.

• "Trailing India-Past and Present-in New York City," The International Indian (Dubai), 4:2 (April/May 1996), pp 18-19.

• "Shadow of a Shadow: Sam Selvon and the West Indian," Indo Caribbean Review (Windsor, Ontario), 2:2 (December 1995), pp 145-157.

• "Rewriting the Novel in the Trickster Tradition," The Toronto Review (Toronto), 14:1 (Summer 1995), pp 95-102.

• "The General and the Ghost, Telescoping Novels: The Indian African Diaspora Through the Indian Caribbean Diaspora," Indo Caribbean Review (Windsor, Ontario), 2:1 (June 1995), pp 73-82.

• "India in the West Indies? But of Course!" Caribbean Voice (New York) 2:4 (May 1995) p 6.

• "Remembering Sam Selvon," Caribbean Voice (New York), 2:3 (March/April 1995), pp 18-19.

• "Whither Post-colonialism and Post-modernism," Surface & Symbol (Toronto), 7:3 (April 1995), p 2.

• “Yoga as Art: Meditating on Sam Selvon,” Brick (Toronto), 50 (autumn 1994), pp 61-64.

• "Extending the Indian Tradition: Indian Literature, Music, Culture and Writers of Indian Origin in the West Indies," Indo Caribbean Review (Windsor, Ontario), 1:1 (June 1994), pp 15-28.

• “India in the West Indies? But of Course!” The International Indian (Dubai), 2:7 (Summer 1994) p 52.