It is really too bad that the visit of Shrimati Sushma Swaraj, Minister of External Affairs and Overseas Indians Affairs, Republic of India, came to a close so
The election date has yet to be declared, but Mauritius has been preparing itself for a new government for some time now. Earlier this year it looked like
The main concern – l’enjeu principal — in the forthcoming general elections is nothing other than what has been referred to by politicians as the “Second Republic”. This
Either we are prehistoric dinosaurs out of touch with modernity, ignoramuses or plainly dumb. But no matter in which category a big chunk of the demos falls, we
It is yet time for the elected and the leaders at the helm of Government and political parties to redress things by rebooting with the lofty democratic values
Last week on the night of 9th June, extremist militants of ISIS, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, overran and captured Mosul, the second largest city in
If a democratic country were defined simply as one in which elections are held regularly, many countries notorious for the worst forms of dictatorship would qualify for the
The ongoing saga about a possible LP-MMM alliance is showing one surprise after another, which is perhaps not unexpected given the complexity of the political situation. However, those
Politics and the inevitable speculations which accompany it have now become the order of the day and we are not yet officially in pre-electoral campaign. What is normally
In line with the stand we have taken so far, we are not concerned about the histrionics of any of the leaders involved in the negotiations regarding electoral