Category: Features

Letter from New Delhi — A former resident Nairobi, Dial Singh Sagoo, an artist who drew Jomo Kenyatta in 1961 while the Kenyan leader was held in detention

We have inherited a bit of every continent. And in our island state there are individuals from different cultures who have to adapt to new truths We are

If you want any reform in your society, you have to begin with yourself. How does it matter what the other has done, or not done?

Pour combien de temps encore devrais-je laisser collées au mur de notre salon les deux affiches en papier rouge vif mesurant deux mètres de haut et calligraphiant en

Choices to make I still recall that when we from Mauritius went out in the 1990s to convince people from other countries to come over to do financial

2nd Year No 72 — Friday – 23rd December 1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru This time of the year is a most auspicious occasion to speak to men’s hearts. The

2nd Year No 72 — Friday – 23rd December 1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru Must youth dabble in politics? Youth has always taken a keen interest. The history of great

The famous sociologist and political thinker Ralf Dahrendorf has been forecasting an “authoritarian 21st Century” for quite some time now. It seems that he is being proven right

The factual value of what you read now in the British press is radically indeterminate. The future is certainly so. The conclusion of whether or not you choose

Politicians seem to get away with their lies. Even worse for their country, their lies can take them to victory, possibly because ‘people have a tendency to ditch

Current uncertainty clouding global economic conditions seems to indicate that we’ll need to put in extra effort to pull up the economy… Times are difficult

Unless educational reforms are based on fair play, equity and justice, they are not going to be acceptable in 21st century Mauritius

Letter from New Delhi —  As an overseas Indian if you are planning to send money by ‘hawala’ to your relatives back home in India, forget it for

The Mauritian government must pursue the matter to its logical conclusion by all the judicial means available internationally

To commemorate the 100th year of the end of Indian indentureship —