Category: World Affairs

2016 American Elections

Indépendance et encore une perte de souveraineté. Après celui de Diego en ‘68, c’est la remise du port de la capitale entre les mains d’un pays étranger qui

There is a general outcry in public opinion about such heinous recurrent crimes being committed these days in our midst. A large number of people are clamouring for

Of Inclusiveness of Growth and Shared Prosperity

Whoever could have believed that such fearful beasts like the dinosaurs would one day spur such wonderful descendants like the birds, thus creating a world for us and

Real democracy cannot be confined to the respect of formal rules and institutions. It is a mindset made up of the internalisation of a number of values and

Does the Presidential system spawn the new all-powerful ‘monarchs’ and Animal Farm Napoleons of our time? Have we come full circle? Thank goodness we opted for and stuck

The expression ‘think globally, act locally’ became popular in relation to climate change which was a global phenomenon but whose local impacts were significant. So it came to

The global slowdown combined with the downturn in the oil industry carries inherent risks of possibly more difficult market conditions in the future. Such a prospect renders the

Another Perspective on Mauritian History

Recently, the suicide of Dalit research scholar Rohith Vemula in Hyderabad sparked outrage among Dalit teachers and students, and shocked academics in foreign universities. The latter published a

As a new year begins, one always hopes that things will be better than the year before. Unfortunately, this hope is often belied by events which burst on

The times have changed, but the threats remain, indeed have taken new forms and multiplied because of ideological lunatics

With the best of goodwill and solidarity, we should be able once again to make it to another round of economic and social progress. It’s in everybody’s interest

Letter from New Delhi