Rebels, Pariahs and Misconception - Kallicharran

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By Rohan On June 22, 2011 ·

I was 7 years old when I heard the news, and it devastated me to the core. We would not be going to Australia for Christmas to see Dad because he would not be there. I wondered if he had broken his finger again, because he broke it earlier in the year and never got to play in the 1980/81 series against England. Then again, he had played today against Lancashire, so he could not have broken it.

Alvin Isaac Kallicharran has never written an autobiography. Now aged 62, and some 2 decades on from his retirement, I very much doubt that he will. It is a shame in many respects, for I suspect that it would have made good reading, and over these next few years, there are many things that I would like to discuss with him.
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[Googley]

I was telling a friend the other day this very thing....

It did interest me, however, more recently, that the newly released film, Fire In Babylon, made no mention of Kallicharran or Kanhai before him. It focused purely on the politically driven force of a black West Indian team, and the shame of those that went to South Africa.

[mapoui]

I was telling a friend the other day this very thing....

It did interest me, however, more recently, that the newly released film, Fire In Babylon, made no mention of Kallicharran or Kanhai before him. It focused purely on the politically driven force of a black West Indian team, and the shame of those that went to South Africa.

well the author of dat fil is not blac and westindian so allyuh cyar blame we!

anyhow there may be a simple explanation. the film-maker makes no distinction between Indian and Africsn in a westindian relaity because both groups, exploited in the region for the same purpose, face with the same problems and can follow only the same couse to bring about solution.

dat makes the groups the same in the region given their cultural diferences, which the sitaution is rapidly forving into the same flow for that is the only way liberattion can be achieved

but yu googley doh see it dat way. yuh see Indian as diffferent, better, sup[erior to africans..sepearte and must be spoken of as separte and distinct as you think you are.

but saner more erudite observes may not see the situation as you do.

so next time you see dat fella who mek dat film arks him the question yuh hear.."why yuh din talk about the Indian players on the champion westindies teams seperately. contact him if there is a way to do so and arks him.

nutten like an answerfrom the horse mouth

[Googley]

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but yu googley doh see it dat way. yuh see Indian as diffferent, better, sup[erior to africans..sepearte and must be spoken of as separte and distinct as you think you are.

i see you still in the black hole. get out of it sometime, it might do you some good. there are other colors around!

wasn't Kalli part of the dominating team? why was he not mentioned? I know Rohan was before that. But many credit him with starting the revolution. Something he credited Worrell for!

Regardless, you missed my point because as usually you are so deep in your "blackness" you forget that they were others around who was part of that era!

step out of the hole, Maps!

[mapoui]

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but yu googley doh see it dat way. yuh see Indian as diffferent, better, sup[erior to africans..sepearte and must be spoken of as separte and distinct as you think you are.

i see you still in the black hole. get out of it sometime, it might do you some good. there are other colors around!

wasn't Kalli part of the dominating team? why was he not mentioned? I know Rohan was before that. But many credit him with starting the revolution. Something he credited Worrell for!

Regardless, you missed my point because as usually you are so deep in your "blackness" you forget that they were others around who was part of that era!

step out of the hole, Maps!

man hush yuh mout'! it is yu who have not answered my point?

yuh vex because the doc maker did not single out Indians contributors to the championships teams as Indian.

and I offered a speculative answer as to why. I doh know fuh sure but that is why I suspect he did not do it.

so I suggest we, through you, the lead on the issue..ask the man why! di'ze all.

let me know. I cyan help yu frame the question. all yuh have to do find is his email addy