The tragedy and politics of floods
My captioned three-part miscellany – or potpourri – will be as brief as they are diverse today.
Topic one: I learnt the word “diaspora” from the “dispersal” of the Jews around the world (before the German Holocaust and the creation of modern Israel.) Those “scattered” people highlighted and even promoted the concept of “diaspora.”
I was not familiar with any American city street being co-named. Then came the Little Guyana naming event in Queens, NY, NY, USA last weekend. The miles-long Liberty Avenue now has “Little Guyana” attached to it in the Richmond Hill section of the Borough of Queens. When I first visited the USA in the late seventies that area was just being christened “Little Berbice.”
