Tag: Sada Reddi

From 1865 to 2015

Returning from a visit in Rome six years ago , I met a priest who quizzed me about the ancient monuments of the city. My answer was brief.

‘The child is father to the man’ – so runs this saying taken from a poem of William Wordsworth. In reflecting on the life of the man who

Life on the sugar estates

It may come as a surprise to many that the tutorial system, which is a distinctive feature of British higher education, is completely absent in our public higher

“We have found in our history that we cannot take political and social stability for granted, that economic and democratic development is not an inexorable march towards progress,

The mission of the University of Mauritius in the 21st Century is to disseminate and to create knowledge and to engage with society. An increase in the number

The cooperative movement in Mauritius celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013. Ordinance 4 of 1913 was passed on 12 July 1913 ‘to provide for the constitution and control

Right from the Dutch period the worker brought to Mauritius, whether coerced, voluntarily or involuntarily, has always sought to fight for human dignity and freedom. In spite of

Can Singapore remain innovative, come up with new ideas and increase value-added services in a changing Asia and above all preserve the economic legacy of Lee Kuan Yew?

… but to be young was very heaven! “The successful implementation of the reforms is far more important than the means employed to bring them to fruition. If

The British policy of governing the empire followed strictly what they considered to be the ordering of their own society at home. As David Cannadine reminds us, race

A trip to Asia is always an adventure but when with some members of the family and I visited Cambodia last month, it turned out to be a

In 1990 when Nelson Mandela stepped out of the prison of Robben Island, few could have predicted that apartheid would be dismantled within a few years, and South

With the advent of globalisation and the revolution in communication, the Indian diaspora has also become a global community with its young members reaching out to the world