Perhaps our most famous Trinidadian, Author and philosopher CLR James, from Tunapuna. A graduate of the famous Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain. Alma mater also of 1st Prime Minister Dr. Eric E. Williams, Mas' designer Peter Minshall, Author Sir Vidia Naipaul, Fine artist Jackie Hinkson and Rap artiste Brother Resistance among many many others... Many locals don't know enough about CLR and his seminal books
I just pray that the entire England cricket bandwagon, but especially the players at the heart of it all, are exposed to this lecture before they attempt to play in any other match. My only worry is that the testing world of CLR James, a world where there was something concrete to prove to the former colonial masters, has fallen by the wayside of cultural evolution. More plainly, is West Indian cricket dying because the need for some entity once known as the "West Indies" has simply evaporated into the ever-more distant post-colonial historical past. Wanting back the scourge of what I recall, as a 43 year-old man, was the dominant model of the mystique of the superhuman West Indian cricket team of my era is a kind of masochistic nostalgia. But that is better than the alternative: the alternative is grief at the loss of West Indies cricket - one of my most significant cultural anchors. Of all the excellent points made in this dazzling, therapeutic talk, the inference that West Indies cricket is gone forever disturbs me far more than the lecture perfectly explains my own failure as a cricketer (who knew and played with several of the Middlesex men mentioned here!). The West Indies as an idea that gave birth to the most warlike cricket teams ever seems to have served its purpose. That is implied here and by - now - two decades and more of failure with no sign of any change, only continued decline. Should I mourn that? West Indies cricket was as much a part of my childhood as it was a real thing for the great West Indian cricketers. So I will be very sad if it really is dying. I think it is already dead but it died, fittingly, alongside the slow death of the fragile idea of the West Indies as a kind of post-abuse symbol of solidarity against the former abusers. It seems that there's no longer any need for one so there is no longer any need for the other. More is the pity (in cricketing terms).
I have 2 scrap books with CLR James handwritten letters, letters from priministers, publishing and newspapers clips. About 100yrs old. Who would be intrested in these? Thank you
Perhaps our most famous Trinidadian, Author and philosopher CLR James, from Tunapuna. A graduate of the famous Queen's Royal College in Port of Spain. Alma mater also of 1st Prime Minister Dr. Eric E. Williams, Mas' designer Peter Minshall, Author Sir Vidia Naipaul, Fine artist Jackie Hinkson and Rap artiste Brother Resistance among many many others...
Many locals don't know enough about CLR and his seminal books
The Captain of The Art of Captaincy. A living Angel. God bless you Sir. Amen.
Mike Brearley is great to listen to on being a Captain.
I’m not a big fan of Cricket but I do like Brearley’s points on leadership.
I just pray that the entire England cricket bandwagon, but especially the players at the heart of it all, are exposed to this lecture before they attempt to play in any other match.
My only worry is that the testing world of CLR James, a world where there was something concrete to prove to the former colonial masters, has fallen by the wayside of cultural evolution. More plainly, is West Indian cricket dying because the need for some entity once known as the "West Indies" has simply evaporated into the ever-more distant post-colonial historical past.
Wanting back the scourge of what I recall, as a 43 year-old man, was the dominant model of the mystique of the superhuman West Indian cricket team of my era is a kind of masochistic nostalgia. But that is better than the alternative: the alternative is grief at the loss of West Indies cricket - one of my most significant cultural anchors.
Of all the excellent points made in this dazzling, therapeutic talk, the inference that West Indies cricket is gone forever disturbs me far more than the lecture perfectly explains my own failure as a cricketer (who knew and played with several of the Middlesex men mentioned here!).
The West Indies as an idea that gave birth to the most warlike cricket teams ever seems to have served its purpose. That is implied here and by - now - two decades and more of failure with no sign of any change, only continued decline.
Should I mourn that? West Indies cricket was as much a part of my childhood as it was a real thing for the great West Indian cricketers. So I will be very sad if it really is dying. I think it is already dead but it died, fittingly, alongside the slow death of the fragile idea of the West Indies as a kind of post-abuse symbol of solidarity against the former abusers.
It seems that there's no longer any need for one so there is no longer any need for the other.
More is the pity (in cricketing terms).
I have 2 scrap books with CLR James handwritten letters, letters from priministers, publishing and newspapers clips. About 100yrs old.
Who would be intrested in these?
Thank you
Read CLR James' book. It is amazing. You can borrow my copy if you ask reasonably nicely.
Dear, can you give it to me to read my dear?
Mike brearley interview with
I wonder if im related to him
Do u hv a way of managing people?