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Open Letter to the Leaders of Tomorrow

Saffiyah Edoo Dear Aspiring Leaders, I hope you are sitting up, observing, paying heed to what is happening and taking copious notes. By now, you must...

22 Mar 2018 16h42

Metro Mauritius : Designing for humans

Are we building a new public transportation line? By all measures this is a big and complex undertaking and it’s interesting to see how others...

21 Mar 2018 18h45

Who’s behind the presidential saga ?

Who is trying to destabilize a properly elected government by having advised President Ameenah Gurib-Fakim to institute her own Commission of Inquiry? This exercise...

21 Mar 2018 16h02

Capitalism’s priestly class are economists

Yanis Varoufakis, who served as Greece’s finance minister, makes a key distinction between a ‘market’ (a place for exchange or barter) and an ‘economy’...

21 Mar 2018 15h57

Nouvel an Baha’i, le ‘Nawruz’

Bureau des Affaires extérieures de la Foi bahaïe En ce 21 mars, les Bahá’ís à Maurice et du monde entier célèbrent le Nawruz, le nouvel...

21 Mar 2018 15h55

Glory to thee ! Motherland of mine | Qui a dit que l’exemple vient d’en haut?

“It is not in the storm nor in the strife that we feel benumbed and wish to be no more but in the after-silence...

21 Mar 2018 15h50

From Trump’s Post-Truths to our very own Fakim’s Half-Truths

I remember being struck by Françoise Vergès’s comment that small insular islands such as Mauritius suffer from a certain ‘trauma of insignificance’. It is something...

20 Mar 2018 17h45

Imponderables and perplexities

JEEWAN RAMLUGUN The field gets indefatigably tilled, the soil lavishly nourished for a bounty yield, for a crop that would please Ceres and Demeter, but the ample harvest much...

20 Mar 2018 15h43

Après la farce, la tragédie

Avinaash I. Munohur L’histoire se répète toujours deux fois. La première fois comme tragédie, la seconde comme farce. À moins d’un renversement spectaculaire dont elle semble avoir...

20 Mar 2018 15h34

New dynamics in international relations: The best of times, the worst of times

Frank Owarish Post graduate diploma in International Law and International Relations, Ph.D., International Business, Executive Director, IISRT; former Senior Executive, United Nations As we watch the...

20 Mar 2018 15h33

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