Category: Society

Government’s plan to attract high net worth individuals from abroad should first target qualified Mauritians whose skills and talents are recognized in foreign countries

A major Hindi writer who has enriched the world of literature in Mauritius is gone. His demise summons memories of the evening spent at his place in Triolet

Look around and most indicators in our society suggest that there is something going wrong

The cannabis drug issue has been widely debated in press columns. Up to now there is no precise information about the intention of the government on the use

Letter from New Delhi

Multiculturalism has always been the approach of the masses and elite policies have had to follow the wishes of the people. There is no place for dogmas

Has the ladies faith in the dogmatic teachings of feminist writers/leaders been the deliverance they had dreamt of? Has it led them to other forms of sexual inequality,

It would be only later that we would realize how we had been taken for a ride; the real villain were not the Amerindians; they were defending their

Going to the pictures in the 1950s was almost like a religious ceremonial undertaking. It was the pastime of those years, to which we children would look forward

If we are all the same then we have little or nothing to share and thus to enrich each other. If we are from different backgrounds, then we

It is unacceptable that some hotels should place limits on the expression of the very diversity which appeals to the tourists who have gone beyond the stage of

Why is there an obsession to bring in more foreigners in such a small island, with lands at forbidding prices and an acute scarcity of lands for locals,

Mostly, the roads are not responsible

No one can deny that science and technology have been a force for good overall, but as usual we humans mess up, and then we get what we

A piece of our folklore has gone into extinction for ever – just like our good old dodo. Never deride the ‘carnet la boutique’!