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It is indeed a great moment of intense emotion to walk down memory lane to the days when the country became independent on a Monday 12 March 1968

Major changes in our society have only taken place when the people had been duly informed, issues discussed openly and thrashed out at elections. The battle for independence

Mauritius will have to engage into a transformational transition which can only be achieved through a coherent plan and the courage to undertake disruptive reforms. The acid test

In the forthcoming celebration of Independence, please forget the buzzwords of political and economic colonisation and the grand movement of emancipation from a foreign power. Focus on now

MT 60 Years Ago 3rd Year No 76 – Friday 20th January 1956 We publish below some excerpts from two articles which have appeared in the South African

The status quo is untenable for the multitude. We have clearly reached the point of no return. Is it not time to upset the applecart to set things

Woman! Mother! Sister! Partner! Goddess! You cover the whole range of our needs Our want of affection and protection Warm in your womb and secure in your heart!

In 1932 Carl Jung, the famous Swiss psychiatrist, had the chance to interview the Amerindian Chief ‘Mountain Lake’, in New Mexico; concerning the European immigrants who had occupied

If there was no struggle for Independence, that it was a ‘give-away’ by a British government, then what was the reason for all the frenzy that kept convulsing

There is a complex amalgam of good and bad drivers on our roads, daily, at any moment. It is not evident that the good ones are having the

A ‘Know India’ Seminar was held in Mauritius at the Hotel Intercontinental this week, in the presence of Hon Nandcoomar Bodha, Minister of Public Infrastructure and Land Transport

Il existe une étrange mentalité à Maurice. Les politiciens pensent — et le bon peuple semble être d’accord — que le pays leur appartient et leur donne des

Qs & As — … it cannot be the type of politics, which tells you ’we are government, we decide’” In many societies, people are coming up against

The image of the Presidency must not in any way be tarnished. This is because should an amalgam be made, there would spillover effects, tantamount to tarnishing the

The Indo-Mauritian community has been under watch ever since its arrival and implantation in Mauritius, with the advent of the Indenture Labour System – the Girmit. But it