Author: TP Saran

Other than those who reside there or travel to work in Port Louis daily, most of us Mauritians too at some point or the other go to our

The expression ‘think globally, act locally’ became popular in relation to climate change which was a global phenomenon but whose local impacts were significant. So it came to

As a new year begins, one always hopes that things will be better than the year before. Unfortunately, this hope is often belied by events which burst on

The times have changed, but the threats remain, indeed have taken new forms and multiplied because of ideological lunatics

A Conversation with Uncle Claus As he does every Christmas, Santa Claus was again on his annual visit to our beautiful island. Once again TP Saran caught up

There have been some incidents of shooting in the United States since the beginning of the year in which black teenagers have been shot at practically gunpoint range

Talk under the joint auspices of ODI/Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund

Since last Friday the world news has been dominated completely by the terrorist attacks in Paris, displacing altogether from the radar the stunning electoral victory of Myanmar’s ‘Grand

In what has been described as ‘peaceful and historic’ the general elections held in Myanmar on Sunday 8 November were the first such an exercise at national level

There is not a single day that goes without the media across the world, including of course our own local media, reporting on some case or the other

We had heard about ‘creative accounting’, a device used to conceal irregularities in accounting reports of sundry organizations, usually the larger ones. Now it seems that we will

In the wake of the celebrations of the 115th anniversary of SSR at Kewal Nagar on last Sunday the 20th September, the Labour Party leadership may have got

The ongoing migrant/refugee crisis currently battering the European Union brings to mind the still unresolved issue of the Chagossian refugees. The willingness of some European countries and the

The fragility of multiethnic societies can be evidenced from the number of conflicts that have paralysed or even destroyed otherwise viable societies, and even prosperous ones across the

British politician Winston Churchill is cited as saying that democracy is the least bad of systems of government. It would be recalled that despite leading Britain to victory