Category: Features
By Amanoola Khayrattee -December 6, 2018 Getting the feel of the countryside has never been better than probing into the heart of it, on foot. Trail running is but one medium …
The month of Ramadhan is coming to an end in a few days. It will then be a moment of joy and celebrations for Muslims with the festival of …
At 2.00 am on Sunday 26 October this year the clocks in Mauritius read 3.00 am. The country stepped into the summer time concept practiced in many countries. Government …
Time is running. Already three months and three weeks since I landed here in Rodrigues. Can you recall I wrote about this island of volcanic origin as a Hill …
In the last post in my series relating to the recent flood that hit Mauritius I referred to the event as a wake-up call. I highlighted a number of …
Let’s recapitulate before going further. In the first post we looked into the event that hit the country. Then we probed into the existing torrential rain warning system after …
So far we have looked into the chronology of events and the adequacy or inadequacy of the system in place. You can already sense the complexity of the issue …
From the previous post you should have some idea on the sequence of events that led to various (misleading so to say) interpretation of matters. Today I’ll go into …
Four dead including one school child of 13 in the unprecedented flood that hit the country on Wednesday last. The child was returning home after early school dismissal due …
Hey folks, here am I again. Oh, it’s been a while. Are you still around? Well. Sit back and relax as I write from Rodrigues some 600 kilometres to the …
Today Hindus all over the world celebrate Divali or Deepavali as it is also called. It’s a festival of lights, which symbolizes the victory of good over evil, the triumph of light over darkness, …
Muslims in Mauritius will start fasting on Thursday if the moon is visible on Wednesday night; otherwise it’ll be on Friday. This will mark the start of the holy …
On 9 September 1864 the world lost a great man. Not a statesman. Not a politician. But man of God. An “apostle of every rank and class”. This is …
Mauritius is a small island with a significant number of cultural and religious celebrations. A country where Hindus, Muslims and Christians live together has no other ways to show the …
Horrible! It’s the least that can be said when you discover a newly-born, innocent, less-than-a-day-old child, draped in a piece of cloth and inert in a school bag. And …