{"id":41090,"date":"2024-08-23T21:46:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/?p=41090"},"modified":"2024-08-23T21:46:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T17:46:48","slug":"bequeathed-by-our-pater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/bequeathed-by-our-pater\/","title":{"rendered":"Bequeathed by Our Pater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><u>MT @ 70<\/u><\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>By Chetan Ramchurn<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At home, week in and week out, from my school days until later, there was always a copy of the Times in the living room. We grew up with it. My father, the late Vijaykumar Ramchurn, had a passion for reading, and his children inherited the same yearning for knowledge. When I was wise enough to grasp its historical significance, which was bound to dawn upon me in our left-leaning household, I understood how crucial it was in the fight for independence. It was the progressive\u2019s shield against NMU\u2019s and other attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While journalism is increasingly relegated to pro-bourgeoisie PR, there is, 70 years after its creation, a haven where fairness and justice will endure. The thinking man\u2019s paper still exists in the <em>Mauritius Times<\/em>. I have been fortunate enough to share my thoughts in its pages without having to tame them to fit a mould, not that I ever would. On its platinum anniversary, let us remember its founder, Beekrumsing Ramlallah, and his comrade-in-arms who were bold enough to propose an alternative to the oligarchy\u2019s whims. The fight is still on.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Mauritius Times ePaper Friday 23 August 2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MT @ 70<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":21102,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9968],"tags":[580,41406,47718,47716,6287,15628,47717,36,77,47722,47721,47719,47720,47714,47715],"class_list":["post-41090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-beekrumsing-ramlallah","tag-fairness","tag-fight-for-independence","tag-historical-significance","tag-journalism","tag-justice","tag-left-leaning-household","tag-mauritius-times","tag-nmu","tag-oligarchys-whims","tag-platinum-anniversary","tag-pro-bourgeoisie-pr","tag-thinking-mans-paper","tag-vijaykumar-ramchurn","tag-yearning-for-knowledge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Chetan-Ramchurn.jpg?fit=1194%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-aGK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}