Category: Language

A Personal Perspective

The Mauritian Bhojpuri

The point really is about creating an awareness of the language issue in Mauritius and a will to set things right or let one’s linguistic legacy slip into

Language & Culture

There need be no rivalry in the matter of languages, and no chauvinism. Instead, they should be considered as vehicles that open the doors to wider horizons of

In the matter of languages, at this turning point in human development and our own, there is absolutely no place for linguistic chauvinism!

‘Language and culture go hand in hand. If language is lost, culture is lost’

In the context of the 11th World Hindi Conference

‘It is not the number of mother tongue speakers which makes a language important in the eyes of the world, but the extent to which a language is

In the context of the forthcoming World Hindi Conference

Mauritians have an idea of how good, correct and proper English is supposed to sound like… However, ‘good’ speakers do not have to feel judged, but be focused

The decision to introduce any other language is as important an issue as that of whether to include one’s religion or ethnic group on the electoral voting paper,

MT 60 Yrs Ago — 3rd Year – No. 94  — Friday 25th May 1956

Touching Bhojpuri Channel which is an icon for the Bhojpuri Language and Bhojpuri phones indeed is like playing with gunpowder. These are very sensitive issues

Public debate and input must inform any eventual decision, because the politician will be too apt to give in to populism