Tag: British Empire

Letter from New Delhi

on both sides – especially when it comes to Kashmir

New realities and strategic rethink have superseded older visions of the Indian Ocean’s strategic importance to economies around much of the globe

Mauritius Times – 60 Years

Mauritius Times – 60 Years

“Heads must roll” would have thundered Minister Alan Ganoo in his Opposition days on that black Friday

By Jan Arden

  Slave traders transformed human lives into profit-bearing opportunities – just like modern finance

Interview: David Snoxell, Coordinator – The Chagos Islands All-Party Parliamentary Group

The story of the growth of Britain’s sugar trade can tell us a lot about the development of capitalism and the slave trade

By Dr Rajagopal Soondron

Just like the main British population, many Mauritians with a standard job and status would have families with divided views on Brexit. Some with academic and/or professional occupations

While we usually celebrate the independence of Mauritius, we usually fail to commemorate the 1937 labour unrest when a few hundreds of labourers organised the march on Union

It is high time that as a nation we cut loose from our real or imagined hangovers to finally reconcile ourselves with our history

Growing up in the days of the British Empire, perforce it left its imprint on many of us, especially those who came to be associated with it directly