Category: Features

From time immemorial, people have recounted in a combination of awe, respect, flourish and fanfare the wealth and power of the immensely rich people who lived at different

De temps en temps, le spectre de l’hégémonie – hindoue, bien entendu – est ravivé et nourri par des propagandistes qui ont accès facile aux antennes et autres

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I died today. Accident of birth had placed me into a Hindu family exactly 70 years ago. However, I chose to die a Buddhist and breathed my last

The first “exit polls” have been made public as soon as voting came to a close on Monday last, in an election which witnessed the participation of the

1.     Elect the Parliament with a PR system where party leaders have the final say on party lists and thus assure their own election even before the polls.

I first tasted Sindhi curry when I was in the UK doing my specialization nearly forty years ago. My late wife’s mamiji (wife of her mother’s brother: mama

Paedophilia is severely punished by law; but how come hundreds of priests are going scot-free for committing such an abominable crime on the innocent? That’s double standard at

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Le matérialisme historique nous enseigne que tout système contient en son sein les germes de son propre dépassement. Ainsi lorsque la science avait maîtrisé les “capacitors” et les

It has rained the past few days all over the island, and no need to say that in Curepipe we are especially privileged! Frankly, on Wednesday morning I

The MES was established in 1984. The fact that it was going to be a local examining body at several levels, certain people raised all sorts of doubts

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… we must read and ponder. Tahar ben Jelloun, 69-year old philosopher, novelist and poet of Moroccan origin who lives in Paris, needs no introduction.

The Genesis of the Mauritian Trade Unions & the Condition of the Mauritian Workers during the 1940s