Dear editor,
I WRITE to thank your editorial team for featuring Dr. Vishnu Bisram’s articles. He informs us about so much unknown or unrecorded history and of unsung heroes. The public learns so much from them. And I also want to applaud Dr. Bisram for his outpourings on varied subjects, especially on issues pertaining to Guyana and her diaspora. He is undoubtedly the most recognised name in the media writing from the diaspora and also in opinion polling in Trinidad and Guyana. I can’t think of anyone who writes on so many issues, including on the Caribbean and Indian diasporas, and he has been corresponding for so many media outlets. That is not surprising, given his multi-dimensional background and his multiple doctorates in various subjects.

Dr. Bisram writes voluminously in the media, not only in Guyana, but around the Caribbean as well, and in North America and India. I read his contributions in papers in Trinidad and other Caribbean territories. And he has also contributed countless pieces in academic conferences, journals, magazines, books, and on zoom or webex conferences, some in joint appearance with me. I can’t think of anyone from the diaspora who has made a bigger impact or contribution in the Guyanese media or in the diaspora.

Through his prolific writings, Dr. Bisram has kept Guyana and the Guyanese diaspora updated on happenings in the diaspora, including some that he organised or spearheaded. His recent historical pieces on the activities of the Guyanese diaspora in America during the 1970s through the 1990s and on unsung heroes are deeply appreciated.

They make for interesting reading. His commentaries are also quite penetrating and revealing, giving perspectives that few dare. He is a rare, courageous writer. He is very outspoken not for his own good in professional advancement. His pieces on the emergence of the terms Guyanese or Caribbean or Indian diasporas and his personal role in their coinage are very insightful and are for the history books.

Thank you editor for featuring a balanced view of reports and commentaries in the paper, something we have not seen for over five years. This allows for the views of Dr. Bisram and other leading scholars to be featured. For the first time in five years, I have seen the Chronicle being managed professionally and with competence. A change in leadership and editorial team was long overdue.

Yours truly,
Dr. Kumar Mahabir