{"id":41866,"date":"2024-12-13T21:12:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T17:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/?p=41866"},"modified":"2024-12-13T21:12:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T17:12:47","slug":"dawood-rawats-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/dawood-rawats-comeback\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawood Rawat\u2019s comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><u><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Forum<\/span><br \/>\n<\/u><!--more--><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The news of Dawood Rawat\u2019s comeback was widely known, though without a confirmed date. His return to his homeland, alongside his wife, Aisha, marks another positive development in the era of freedom and renewal we have been experiencing since 11 November 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I have known Dawood since the early 1980s. I have witnessed his tireless dedication as an employee of British American Insurance, rising through the ranks to become Chairman Emeritus of the BAI Consortium. By the early 2010s, the consortium had grown significantly, posing a challenge to the entrenched oligarchy. Dawood has always been a man who treated everyone equally, regardless of status or wealth. He embodies the essence of Mark Twain\u2019s <em>The Prince and the Pauper<\/em>, where true nobility is rooted in character, not privilege. Today, he is reaping the rewards of his integrity and kindness, surrounded by family and friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In my view, Dawood\u2019s return is also due to his Karma\u2014\u201cthe universal causal law by which good or bad actions determine the future modes of an individual\u2019s existence,\u201d as understood in Indian philosophy. Dawood\u2019s good deeds have not only paved the way for his return to Mauritius as a free man but have also coincided with the nation\u2019s transition from autocracy to democracy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Some may have thought that Dawood\u2019s story had come to an end, but like the Phoenix, Dawood has risen from the ashes, reclaiming his rightful place to contribute to reshaping Mauritius&#8217;s business model.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Leckrani &amp; Jeenarain Soobagrah<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Mauritius Times ePaper Friday 13 December 2024<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forum<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":460,"featured_media":26235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[13186],"tags":[140,1580,204,6842,36],"class_list":["post-41866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forum","tag-bai","tag-british-american-insurance","tag-dawood-rawat","tag-forum","tag-mauritius-times"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Forum.jpg?fit=1230%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8QzSF-aTg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866","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\/460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41866"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41867,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41866\/revisions\/41867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiustimes.com\/mt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}