Darn I thought something wrong with you

 Riya... not. I have not fallen and can't get up.

Can't help. I am from the catholic side of our family tree.

By the way, how you doing cuz?

Cuz... I am doing fine.

Some of the in-laws were Lutheran... looking for info on them.

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Asking for help again... Riya I did get up from the last fall...

I need to read this article in SN,http://www.stabroeknews.com/20...-kampta-karran-dies/

but I don't want to become a member or have to pay. Yes, I am cheap.

Does any one of you have a membership? can you please post the whole article.  Thanks.

I know all your in laws.

Contact me for I think I may know someone who may someoen who may have what you are looking for.

LOL. Thanks Chief... a family member got in contact with me...

IGH, I don't subscribe to SN but the link you posted shocked me because I knew Kampta Karran well. When I left Guyana 17 years ago I passed on to him the key to my post office box at GPO. He published one of my poems in his anthology 'Offerings.' Last time I heard about him, he was in the UK. My condolence to his wife.

When i get home i will post it.

Sociologist Kampta Karran dies

Renowned Guyanese sociologist and author Kampta Karan died last Wednesday of a heart attack at the Skeldon Hospital. He was 56 years old.

His wife Deoranie Gobin Karran said that her husband’s death came as quite a shock since he was not ill prior to his death. She described her husband as humble and kind. “He was one of the kindest persons I know, always loving and giving.” She said that only weeks ago he was ordained as a pastor at Emanuel Lutheran Church in New Amsterdam.

According to one of his friends, Pastor Moses from the Lutheran Church, Karran was ahumble and simple person. “He was a longstanding friend and a colleague in the ministry. He loved people, especially people with limitations and tried to help them as much as possible.”

Kampta Karan

 

Another one of his oldest friends, Roopnarine Satram who knew him since the early 1970s said that Karran was so proud of his new status as a pastor, that he liked to be referred to as ‘Reverend Kampta Karran’. He said Karran was a genuine seeker of knowledge and a keen listener. “He was always a people person and a great networker. He had objectives and he pursued them passionately… He will be dearly missed,” he said.

Karran has a distinguished record in the service of local publishing in Guyana, where he edited and published the journal Offerings and was active in working towards a resolution to Guyana’s ethnic conflicts. He lectured at the University of Birmingham from 1999 to 2002, before joining the University of Warwick Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations as the Warwick Postgraduate Research Fellow in 2002. He also wrote the piece “Wukman”, which was a lamentation on giving directions to workers.

Karran holds degrees from the University of Guyana and the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He was working on his doctorate.

He worked at Guyana State Planning Secretariat in the 1980s, Office of the Prime Minister, School of the Nations and the Ethnic Relations Commission. He also lectured at the University of Guyana and taught A-Level Sociology.

He also published and edited a number of pieces such as No Land, No Mother and Race and Ethnicity in Guyana.

He is survived by his wife and four children, Kiran, Keoma, Kavita and Pollita.

I have known Kampta for over forty years.  I have always found him to be a deep thinker and a very kind person.  He was still a relatively young man.  He was also a political activist of sorts.  I remember his hunger fast outside of the parliment building with Eusi Kwayana in the 1980s.  May he rest in peace.  My deepest sympathy go out to his family at this very sad time. 

Amral thanks!

Wally & Gilbakka will past on your condolences to his son.