Dear Editor,
I refer to a letter in your paper of Saturday, May 10 by someone who signed his name as Dr Anand Persaud (‘Concerned about poll published in SN’). Last month this same writer made some caustic comments on my writings and on the polls of Vishnu Bisram. In that correspondence, he informed us that he is a doctor in applied science. I responded by requesting that you ascertain from this person if his identity is real. That meant where he lives, where he works. The same gentleman is given space again and has not provided the answers I posed. He had to read that missive of mine enquiring about his status because from what he wrote last month, then it appears he follows my writings.
Maybe there is no Dr Anand Persaud. Why would he constantly comment on me and Vishnu Bisram yet refuse to offer details of his true existence? I insist once more than both Stabroek News and Kaieteur News send out e-mails to these writers demanding verification. It is an ugly sociological deformity in a country for the only two independent newspapers in a nation to have their letter pages manipulated by people who are ghost writers. By what logic could one argue in defence of such implausibility? Again, I would urge you to ask Persaud to state if he is a real person.
If he avoids your inquiry (as it appears he did mine), then he is a masked writer and his mail should be left unopened
There is an editorial note attached to Persaud’s letter on Vishnu Bisram. In all honesty, in all sincerity, Mr Bisram would not get away with the secrecy that characterizes his professional life in any other country, not in the least in the US where he lives. Only in Guyana do you find some of these weird things. I have absolutely nothing personal against Mr Bisram. I have never met him. He doesn’t seem to hold obnoxious views on society and politics. In one of his letters, he observed that President Jagdeo is a good president. I don’t agree with him but he has every right to hold that belief. My deep and very deep problem with Mr Bisram is the mystery that surrounds his professional/public life. The facts are there for the editorial staff of Stabroek News to read for themselves. They are contained in several items of published correspondence with me. Here are some answers from Mr Bisram that would not be accepted in any other Caribbean country.
