Category: Features

Mauritians appear to be losing their cheer. Most of the time, they are up in protest against one thing or other these days. The feeling of joy that

Letter from New Delhi

C’est ainsi que l’on peut qualifier le départ de l’écrivain et historien mauricien Louis Rivaltz Quenette, le samedi 11 juillet dernier à la suite d’une maladie. La fin

Automation is coming back with a revenge in advanced economies and it is now contemplated that digitalised machines and robots will do those jobs in the advanced countries

MT 60 Years Ago — 2nd YEAR NO. 43 – 3rd June 1955

Rajpalsingh Allgoo has recently brought out a remarkable book on Trade Unionism in Mauritius. In our day to day life, little do we realise that we take for

Should a civil servant, or a Ministry, or even a Minister, be sending just a copy of a press communiqué to a member of the public by post

Hollywood star Ben Affleck’s attempt to suppress a story about a slave-owning ancestor of his has caused something of a furore, especially in the US. The information about

Last week the editorial in this paper posed a query: ‘Are we losing our way?’ We are afraid that in fact the malady may be worse – in

Indeed, the dismantling of a family business which took fifty years to build is a sad day for the CEO and his relatives who are witnessing all the

The deals contracted in the past week depict such contrasting fates for Greece and Iran. Europe, which owes so much to Greek civilization and its rich legacy of

Depending on one’s age and preferences, whiling away winter evenings can be utterly boring or pleasant. In our modern times, multiple channels on the TV, innumerable websites and

I am a book lover, having grown up in the enchanting atmosphere of the Nalanda Bookshop and smelled the ink of fresh pages of the Mauritius Times every

“We have found in our history that we cannot take political and social stability for granted, that economic and democratic development is not an inexorable march towards progress,

Last week, we examined the legality of the decision of the Bank of Mauritius (BoM) to advance liquid funds to the Special Administrators of the erstwhile British American