Talk:Rudranath Capildeo

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 * His conduct of the last pre-independence electoral campaign, in 1961, was nothing short of disastrous, beginning with his declaration that because he understood Einstein he could "compress the time" necessary to undo what the sitting government had done. It was not because of this extravagant promise, but because of his pledge to build a tunnel under the Northern Range in order to shorten the distance from Port of Spain to the nearest beach, that he acquired the nickname of "the mad scientist".

I can't source this material, so I am moving it here. Guettarda 04:29, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

This material was drawn from

F S J Ledgister, Class Alliances and the Liberal-Authoritarian State: The Roots of Post-Colonial Democracy in Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and Surinam (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 1998); and from Ivaar Oxaal, Black Intellectuals Come to Power: Rise of Creole Nationalism in Trinidad and Tobago'' (Schenkman Publishing, 1968).