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Society Numb to brutality
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, December 2, 2012Environmental activist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh sits up to get his body wiped to keep him cool on day eight of his hunger strike outside the Office of the Prime...
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That instant Trini warmth makes us humane
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, December 9, 2012Ira MathurMy Facebook status said I was “freezing in NY.” My dear friend, veteran journalist Jones P Madeira, replied “Who sen u there?” That got me...
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Tobago belongs to us all
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, January 20, 2013Bangalore—Delhi—London—PoS. Landing in Tobago as a 12-year-old from India, thinking I was going to land in America and instead landing from Delhi to London,...
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Breaking the silence
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, March 3, 2013After 17 years of writing a column almost every week, something happened six months ago. Silence. It descended, a shrouded grey mist. This is what purgatory...
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Heaven, hell and everything in between
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, March 10, 2013Mother India... “How is Delhi?” asked a friend on Skype two days after I got there. “Cold. Very cold. Freezing.” “Wait, it gets cold in India?” Everyone is...
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Incongruity is ordinary in India
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, March 17, 2013Landing at the Indira Gandhi International Airport at 2 am, wondering at its gleaming floors, fancy lighting, escalators, in crisp understated saris,...
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Clinging to old loyalties in India
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, March 24, 2013Mommy and I set off to the bank in Delhi wrapped up, and shed our layers with the warmth of the sun. India is an assault on the eyes with its endless...
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Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, March 31, 2013Long train journeys are for dreaming. A six-hour journey that began at dawn in Delhi, with mist and the sun an orange ball, landscape turning from green to...
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A journey to Ajmer
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, April 7, 2013“This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.” —Rumi...
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Woman with a vision
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, April 14, 2013The kind people Have a wonderful dream Margaret on the guillotine Cause people like you Make me feel so tired When will you die? When will you die...
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US Chargé d’Affaires: T&T important to US strategically
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, April 21, 2013Last week Monday, as Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was in the US preparing to address the UN’s General Assembly, Ira Mathur sat down with the US...
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'Licking the spit of politicians’
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, October 27, 2013“Humanity must perforce prey on itself. Like monsters of the deep.” —William Shakespere Coincidentally, I hear two similar stories on the same day from...
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‘More reality than we can bear’
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, November 3, 2013“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality.” —TS Eliot, Burnt Norton You have to love Trinidad, yes. Take my friend X. There...
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Scraps flung from the gallery
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, November 10, 2013At a recent “official event,” a government minister’s plumed self-important, interminable speech surpassed the usual expectation of boredom. People were...
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Life in the fishbowl
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, November 17, 2013“Every politician who has tasted power, and many who counted for little, has gone to war with the media. If they didn’t, that would signal that journalists...
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Truths beneath the crust
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, November 24, 2013It’s always interesting to watch newly arrived people to our islands. We wonder how long it will take to break them down. They start off edgy, pumping,...
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A baby step back to innocence
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, December 1, 2013Open letter to Amanda...If you looked at her eyes, you would think she was already old or homeless. The corner of one eye is bloodshot. The other eye has a...
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Chasing the light in St Lucia
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, December 8, 2013“To set out for rehearsals in that quivering quarter-hour is to engage conclusions, not beginnings, for one walks past the gilded hallucinations of poverty...
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MaDIBa, Gandhi, Gossip in heaven
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, December 15, 2013Oh, how I wish Madiba, that great, great soul, could have witnessed his own memorial service. I’d like to think of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela and Mohandas...
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Finding the centre
Ira MathurPublished: Sunday, December 22, 2013In a tiny hairdressing salon in St James, a striking woman, Angelica (not her real name) with girlish dimples and velvety skin (like the inside of a...
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