Category: Features

The current tense geopolitical situation doesn’t augur much good for lifting up economies like ours caught in a web of slack global economic growth

New blood is required, sure, but it must be tempered with wisdom, which is not the forte of youth

Huge disparities in salaries and lifestyles are a form of aggression in an ever-flooded market of goods, luxuries and gadgets while salaries are not inflated

On the east side of Duperre street, there once lived a lucky young prince sometime in the past

Unless government puts its house in order through good governance, equity and probity, it is anathema for people to subscribe to fundamentally flawed decisions

Lots of substances are routinely used by athletes so it’s reasonable to ask what counts as “doping” and what counts as “legitimate” performance enhancer

Indentured labour and the Independence of India will be discussed next week by academics from around the world

The idea of dying is so scary to us that we do all imaginable or unimaginable things to prevent death or at least delay dying

The constitutional proposals are nothing but organised gerrymandering designed to confer sectional advantages on the minorities by denying social and political justice to the majority

The causes championed have to be right, not selective. Protests have to uphold causes benefitting the public interest rather than be targeted against specific projects

This is not a matter that concerns one individual or a specific group of individuals. What is at stake is the future of a whole industry

Mauritius has made economic progress by increasing its connectivity. This is an on-going dimension for any country which doesn’t want to be distanced by development

Recalling two wonderful weeks in a voyage of discovery of the mythical land that Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru described as ‘the morning of the world’

However much Showkutally Soodhun may claim that he did not mean what he said, the fact is that harm has been done

It is a fourth visit to Caersws and Aberystwyth; its peaceful surroundings met your eyes but this time, circumstances draw you deeper into its soul