Author: Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

When the Nobel Prizes are due to be announced, usually around this time of the year, there is always excitement in the air for the scientific community, as

‘May the Force be with you’, wished Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the 60000-strong crowd gathered at the Central Park in New York to celebrate a Global

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Feeling a bit achy all over the body (to paraphrase a French writer – le corps a ses raisons que la raison ne connaît pas) on Wednesday morning

Like receiving an appreciative mail such as this one, which is self-explanatory: ‘Last week’s article brought fond memories of my childhood flooding back and I felt quite nostalgic,

On reading the article by Paramanund Soobarah in last week’s issue of this paper – ‘Growing up in the forties and fifties – and my introduction to painful

Both science and technology are neutral, the perverse effect is of our making

As Mauritius Times completes its 60th year of existence today, I feel very happy to have been associated with it for nearly 25 of those 60 years. I

A tip given about ‘How to live a better life’ amongst others that I read about set me aback a little. It was headed ‘Stop watching TV’ and

In July/August 1979 I came back from the UK to spend a couple of weeks at home. There, even in summers – then – the temperatures were on

Empowerment with Dignity Through Mobility I had the blues ’cos I had no shoes Until I went into the street And saw someone Who had no legs… (Anon)

‘Football ine fini, la vie retourne normal astere’ – this is what I overheard from a group of walkers that I crossed at Trou-O-Cerfs on last Tuesday morning.

I may or may not have gone to wish him goodbye before I left for my medical studies in August 1965. Many facts of no likely evolutionary significance

Not a day passes without some new finding or study being reported in medical and related literature about the phenomenon of old age. Perhaps this interest is driven