Author: Dr R Neerunjun Gopee

At a Prize Giving Ceremony for the 4th Physics Olympiad 2013 held on Tuesday 17 September 2013 at Gaëtan Raynal State College, in which the winner was Kevin

“If we wish our lives to be enriched and enlightened, to be raised towards a level of deep understanding and intense happiness that will then guide our actions

I am writing this article in deference to a friend who posed me this question when I met him at a wedding on last Sunday afternoon. He followed

An occupational hazard of being a doctor is to be asked, à tout bout de champ, whether such and such food is good/bad for this and that disease

« One can’t take life too seriously at all times, there must be space for fun and humour, especially where beliefs are concerned. If an atomic scientist can do

A well-known saying is: Some people are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrown upon them. I suspect that the latter type must be short-lived

A Taste of Tomorrow

At some point in our life, some of us at least ask the questions: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where do I go from here,

What we ought to do is to shed our blinkers and to learn as many of the languages that we are heir to as we can, and not

It was the year 1976, in mid-January. I was shortly to leave for Dublin to begin my specialist studies in surgery. At that time I was Resident Medical

The other day I went to the newspaper kiosk, and as I was looking at the several dailies on display, the seller there remarked, ‘tous les jours nek

With the advent of the Internet, there is an endless supply of information that we can access every moment and at any time we decide to do so.

Given all the calamities that the world is going through, that no amount of ‘divine’ input into human affairs has so far prevented the non-divine forces from having

The article by Sada Reddi in last week’s issue of this paper, about the development of orthopaedics as a speciality in Mauritus, prompts me to share some bits

‘Life is like coffee’ – author unknown. So begins and ends a mail forwarded by a friend, among the many that keep entering the mailbox. Most are of