Author: TD Fuego

I am not smart. No really, I am probably the unsmartest person you are likely to meet on this Paradise Island. Whilst everyone around me is using the

“It will take much time and effort to turn SSR into a “magnificent” airport. Apart from inanimate cargo, an airport handles people who have needs and feelings. Cargo

When did you last receive a letter? No I mean a proper handwritten one. Come to think of it, when did you actually send one yourself? I must

August 14th saw the 60th anniversary of MT. Unfortunately I was unable to write at length; some unfinished business with the eye surgeon, alas! However no matter, it

Humble salutations and Congratulations on your 60th anniversary. It must have been a very brave and profound act of faith that spurred the founders to launch an English

The political yo-yo between PM Ramgoolam (NCR) and Leader of the Opposition Berenger (PRB) went on for two dreary long months; up one minute, down the next. Announcements,

It was a Friday, and it was exactly a year since granddad’s mum — my great grandmother — had passed away. Consequently, as per Hindu custom, there were

Granddad must have been quite intelligent because, by the time he was 20, he had progressed from a simple labourer on the Sugar Estate to the post of

I died today. Accident of birth had placed me into a Hindu family exactly 70 years ago. However, I chose to die a Buddhist and breathed my last

I so enjoyed reading Mrinal Roy’s comprehensive expose on the much talked about electoral reform (MT 04-Apr-2014). But, apart from one passing sentence tucked at the end of

There is no greater evil than Anarchy, Sophocles wrote in ancient times.

Everyone can live without petrol, gold and diamond, but no one can survive without the blue gold. Hence, it behoves us all to make judicious use of it,

“The hallmark of a civilized society is gauged by the standard of care it provides to its sick, its disabled and its elderly.”

From Exodus to Exile

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