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Neither madonna nor whore
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, April 6, 2014Dear Sacha, I don’t know you but evidently you are a clever, capable, accomplished, independent woman. A petite former beauty-queen powerhouse in a man’s world...
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On being a firefly
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, April 13, 2014On the very day ANR Robinson, the former prime minister and president of this country, died, I was due to give a lecture to UWI students on multimedia. It was...
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A river of love poems
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, April 20, 2014“April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” —TS Eliot from The Waste...
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Interview with Monique Roffey
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, April 27, 2014On this the final day of Bocas I interviewed Monique Roffey an award-winning Trinidad-born British writer and memoirist on writing and T&T. Who is...
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Dealing with damage
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, May 4, 2014“I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not, except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And then...
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The Trini Book of the Dead
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, May 11, 2014“In this country of just 1.3 million people, there have been 160 murders so far this year. The islands have some of the world’s prettiest beaches and some of...
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The imam who sings bhajans and hymns
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, May 18, 2014“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes from the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does...
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India’s political drama
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, May 25, 2014We are in the midst of a local and the Cannes film festivals. Although India churns out some 1,300 films annually, nobody expects Indian films to be nominated...
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Living in a fog
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, June 1, 2014If it be your will If there is a choice Let the rivers fill Let the hills rejoice Let your mercy spill On all these burning hearts in hell If it be your...
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Crumbling from within
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, June 8, 2014“Somebody is contributing to the fact that in ten years T&T has moved 40 places in the wrong direction in the corruption league table. Some people are...
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A walk in the Beetham
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, June 15, 2014PART IWhen I returned from my visit to a preschool in the Beetham last week, I cut my hair short to mark the day, so I would remember. The morning unfolded...
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A walk in the Beetham Part 2
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, June 22, 2014PART II On that hot day in the Beetham, three people—Simone de la Bastide, Wayne Jordan, and I—gazed at tall grass that had shot above a six-foot-high,...
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Savouring our Schadenfreude
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, June 29, 2014“When the Canadian writer Paul Roberts visited Baghdad in the 1990s he wrote of the ‘inner carnage and horror’ that eclipsed the more obvious physical neglect...
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Of past and future
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, July 6, 2014When I got the invitation to be the feature speaker to the graduating class of the Parvati Girls Hindu College in south Trinidad, I felt a strange emotion....
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Cascadura People
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, July 20, 2014Sarah Beckett, British-born, European-educated, Caribbean artist, poet and film-maker, belongs to a tribe I privately think of as the cascadura set—named after...
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