Category: Society

To our young mind our house and school were the most important buildings; yet, the next place that impressed us most was our Chinese corner shop

Today’s children must remember that they too will become old. If they are neglecting their duties towards their elderly parents, they had better change attitude

But legalize we will have to! If we do not wish the country to be overrun like some Caribbean islands by the drugs mafia

It’s well and good to tell people not to get into bad things or not to fool around with dangerous experiments. Okay, but what is there to make

There were many unknown men of such grit who had contributed to the nation-building process. But to us children, our first love was always that watercress

Do we really need lessons from others to address our own foibles?

There is a lot to be done for the upliftment of people from the mere display of faith

Let’s celebrate all those simple, hardworking, honest Mauritian men of the past 50 years… They toiled and kept improving their fate by gradual and definite changes

Ilya Prigogine, Nobel Laureate in chemistry, said that ‘you cannot predict the future, but you can prepare for it.’

No less deserving of the population’s thanks, gratitude and congratulations are the members of that much reviled tribe called civil servants, who were d’arrache-pied to ensure the security

Mindlessly, we allow ourselves to become the echo-chambers of the very people who won’t allow the downtrodden to improve their lives, to become part of the mainstream… — By

That 1960 episode of our childhood would tell us a lot about crowd mentality; how in times of stress the human mind can become blind to reason — By

The epidemic is already raging and any further delay will be catastrophic

Les revendications conservatrices se font-elles, en façade, au nom du patrimoine ? Serait-ce un concept fourre-tout qui arrange les intérêts des uns et des autres ?

1968-2018 and, now, the next 50 years