Category: Features

“When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” — W Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

God’s Children

MT 60 Yrs — 2nd YEAR NO. 44 – 11 June 1955

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

The Indian Naval Ship Teg is in the northern reaches of our Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) these days. It accosted our Quay A for a few days. Its

Certain events this year have been sending my mind back to the forties and fifties when I used to put more time into reading novels than was good

Bookshops are universities anyone can enter. – Tony Benn The above quotation is from the October 1995 issue of the Reader’s Digest. A few years ago I visited

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