Category: Features

My article on macatia coco1 seems to have touched many a chord. Amongst others, I received a very nice season’s greetings card from a kindly soul who even

Nursery rhymes are invaluable poetic texts that parents can use to communicate with six to seven months old fetuses up to the moment of birth. Research has shown

Mon fils, Te voilà maintenant L’heureux père d’une petite fille. Sache que cet événement A comblé de joie ta mère et moi. A ce tournant de ta vie

Vested interests vs. Intérêt Général L’année 2016 s’ouvre avec la bonne résolution gouvernementale de procéder à la réforme électorale, cette Arlésienne dont tout le monde parle et que

With the best of goodwill and solidarity, we should be able once again to make it to another round of economic and social progress. It’s in everybody’s interest

2nd Year No 54 — Friday 19 August 1955 — To NMU, of course. But as an ex-teacher we do not want to speak to the propagandist so much

Pahlad Ramsurrun, connu et apprécié pour ses laborieuses recherches sur l’Histoire et le folklore mauriciens, directeur et éditeur en chef de la revue trilingue (hindi, anglais, français) Indradhanush,

2015 has been marked by a reckless obsession with economic growth, mega-projects, unrealistic job creation targets and a get-rich quickly philosophy. As a result, government policies have been

There are major uncertainties ahead, and we cannot assume political maturity has reached our shores, but we may still hope the country’s fate weighs more than those of

These days a quick look around the world where new governments have been brought to power, shows that there is growing impatience not only of the electorate, investors

The Global Setting: Someone has rightly said that the future is no longer what it used to be. Indeed the era which is generally referred to as the

There are hundreds of places of worship: shivalas (Shiv temples), mosques, kovils, pagodas, etc., in this little country of ours. By belief and by habit people pray for

As one year comes to its end and another one rolls in, it is customary to take a look back at the year gone and wish or hope

MT 60 Yrs –  Our London Letter Mr Brockway is loved and revered by thousands of Africans and Indians who see him as the champion of the oppressed,

Summertime and brace up for more spectacular show of drastic measures across the planet and in your part of the world. Bleak future ahead if we go by