Dear Editor,
I was touched by the recent memorials to Satyadeow Sawh, published on another anniversary of his death.
It took me back to the terrifying events of that night and day when he was so brutally cut down. I recall commenting in your columns at the time that if the street where he lived (and I lived) had been better lit, he might have had more of a chance to escape the peremptory extinction of life’s breath.
I also recall mentioning in that letter our neighbourly relationship, distant as it was, and the way we shared, vicariously, the increasing discomfort of the exit from Earl’s Court (East) onto the LBI Estate main road, which passed for a roadway.
However, last year’s anniversary of his passing was marked by naming the since repaired roadway the Satyadeow Sawh Drive.
Ironic really, since the road where he (and I) actually resided continues to deteriorate beyond recognition – one is inclined to say even of the NDC. But then they haven’t seen it since. However, the accompanying photograph taken on March 1 2008, is indicative of the state of disrepair and despair. Indeed, one can accurately say that the real ‘Sash Sawh’ passageway is not only unutilisable, but that it is never utilised. The one other consideration is that the passageway is now well lit, primarily perhaps, to facilitate better night sighting of the damaged structures.
It is also instructive that this bumpy road leads to the final resting place – the neighbourhood’s cemetery. It may therefore be more fitting to say that we the residents are waiting for it to be exhumed. It might well prove to be a more faithful memorial to the place where Sash Sawh lived and died.
Yours faithfully,
Earl John
