That BBC documentary had drawn a pensive smile from me. It revealed that the Indo-Arabic numerals would have been more complicated to all of us had the zero
So sing the commercial enterprises and their financial pundits. We suspect that business experts have a hand in its generation and popularity; after all it would be a
These days we are exposed to the much-abused expression of “daylight robbery”. In fact since our high school days we had known what daylight robbery meant – when
China spearheaded last month a resolution at the WHO to relegate the much-used anaesthetic ‘Ketamine’ into the Schedule I of the 1971 Convention of Psychotropic substances. Most probably
What’s interesting with human society is that it is never a frozen entity; in fact it progresses and flourishes only if it is allowed to mutate. However this
Seventeen persons, of different faiths and walks of life, were mowed down last week in France, triggering mass protests and unity marches in numerous places to condemn that
It was the grandest month of the year for the simple reason that it stirred within us sweet childhood memories, the greatest and most wonderful of all was
The election is round the corner; the various parties are busy aligning themselves for the final kill as the valorous swordsmen would have done in the battles of
What’s wrong if the public authorities were to use some mild, non-offensive strategy to make people more compliant to a course of action that will finally benefit the
We Mauritians, like all people, do not like wars or natural cataclysms; somehow or other they sap our morale and our faith in God. But an imminent general
Must we be appalled by the current happenings in our world? Russia wants to wrest part of Ukraine to its cause; religious extremists want to gain control in
In one of his articles Max Tegmark, world renowned physicist and cosmologist, along with very serious other thinkers – including one Nobel prize winner – wants us to
