Category: Features

At each and every turn when the country could feel that at long last we might have a six- or even a three-month span of unhindered stability, government

The Finance Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, is reported as having said that a bright future awaits the country in 2017. Apparently he is not unduly perturbed by the departure

‘The classical definition of democracy is government of the people, by the people, for the people. In a democracy, everyone is equal before the law…’

In terms of what a brand may aspire to exude and what it actually delivers, can a government get any further from the mark than the current one?

Qu’est-ce qui a changé en 2016? Pour le meilleur ou pour le pire ? Fin 2016. Que d’attentes, que d’espoirs ! Et en fin de compte, le peuple,

A nation alienated from its government is a recipe for national disaster with the result that public policies, however well-intentioned, will become both dysfunctional and perverse  After two

When India started posting impressive economic growth rates at the end of the last century, an oft-heard comment which used to go round the business community was that

Looking back at the events in Mauritius and some of the misguided government decisions of the past year, we invariably think of an amoeba moving hither and thither

A man should not be judged by the nature of his duties but by the manner in which he does them. – Swami Chinmayananda In other words, it

It may be said that in many countries of the world today the mood is not exceedingly good. That does not augur well for the coming period. However,

L’année 2016, imprévisible à souhait, se termine donc dans un feu d’artifice qui présage d’autres développements.

We should stop fixating on the glass half-empty.

Three major “known unknowns”: What will happen in the Navin Ramgoolam remaining court cases?

On Wednesday 14 December 2016 at Octave Wiehe Hall (Reduit), the opening ceremony of the establishment of Confucius Institute was held on our soil.

“I didn’t know a single word of Russian; but people are so welcoming in Moscow.”