Author: Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

Like all years preceding it, 2015 has been a very eventful year, perhaps a little more for different reasons that we shall not go into at this stage.

We need to ponder seriously about our future and what we want it to be like – liveable and sustainable, or unliveable and potentially unsustainable

Setting the agenda for a better world

The world is currently under the cloud of a terror crisis – ‘terror as the new normal’! – following the spectacular attacks in Beirut, Ankara and Paris, with

At least for now -, and we, the regular walkers and lovers of this piece of natural beauty in our little island hope that the ‘now’ means forever…

Given the high number of registered medical graduates in the country, that was further highlighted recently when only 60 out of about 450 medical practitioners had been recruited

We all know that there is more to Divali than just gateaux patates, gateaux banane and thekoas – the standard preparations on that occasion that we grew up

Broadly the answer will be in the affirmative, but the core issue now is what kind of education and in what fields. This question came to my mind

The issue of the recruitment of 60 general-duty doctors on a month-to-month basis out of a total of 450 who had applied gives me an opportunity to share

‘In the West, the woman in the family is mostly seen in her role as the wife while in India, the woman of the house is always the

The devotees of Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati learned with great sadness on 23 September last that their beloved Guru had attained Mahasamadhi at about 10 pm. He was

Among the several magazines that I still read regularly, going back to my college-going days (Royal College Curepipe), one that leaves me in wonder at every issue is

‘We are fed up with violence’ – I heard these words last week when I came upon an interview on a TV channel, probably the BBC. The person

How nice it would be if our schools could reintroduce teaching of humanities from very early as we had the golden chance in our times. That would certainly

‘And I used to subscribe to Scientific American and I found that there were all these wonderful discoveries happening in biology.’ — Nobel laureate Professor Venkatraman Ramakrishnan On