Author: Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

Book Review ‘Hinduism Explained’ by Dr R Neerunjun Gopee  Our weekly collaborator Dr R Neerunjun Gopee is bringing out a book in a series of publications by the

At the time of writing, Tuesday February 7 morning about five hours after the last bulletin from the Meteorological Services issued at 4.15 hours, a weakened cyclone Carlos

The basic truism is that our needs turn into wants, which is fair enough within limits. But the tipping point comes when need becomes greed, and that’s when

‘Getting old is mandatory. Feeling old is optional’ ‘Frailty, thy name is woman’ is a well-known Shakespearean saying. Frailty implies being weak, delicate, breakable, and women in patriarchal

Everything boils down to leadership, trust and integrity In the Hindu epic Ramayana, which is about the life of Prince Rama of Ayodhya and what an ideal society

We may look back over our past in years but we can only look to the future one day at a time, a day that also begins the

A man should not be judged by the nature of his duties but by the manner in which he does them. – Swami Chinmayananda In other words, it

From time to time there comes a film from Bollywood which is not of the usual song-and-dance type and which one can watch without having to ‘leave your

The world is now supposed to be a global village, a term which perhaps means that just as in a village we get to know what’s happening to

In Mauritius, we have all the ingredients to be healthy even if not materially wealthy

If you want any reform in your society, you have to begin with yourself. How does it matter what the other has done, or not done?

Politicians seem to get away with their lies. Even worse for their country, their lies can take them to victory, possibly because ‘people have a tendency to ditch

First of all, on behalf of my fellow Hindus who messed up the various beaches of the country on the occasion of the Ganga Asnan festival on Monday

For all of us, it would be worth the while to ‘take the best and leave the rest’ from all cultures and transform that into a working paradigm

Now we have the challenge of non-communicable diseases – but we are in a better position to face them. If we don’t, we will have to deal with