Tag: Manilal Doctor

Celebrating the birth anniversary of Prof Basdeo Bissoondoyal

The official discourse on how descendants of coolies have evolved usually highlights achievements through hard work, education, ambition and social mobility. It is equally important to focus on

‘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

Indian nationalism as well as economic and social changes on the ground paved the way to the abolition of indentureship

By D. Napal, BA (Hons) — MT 60 Years Ago 3rd Year No 76 – Friday 20th January 1956 Is it an irony of fate or is it

By Jay Narain Roy — MT 60 Years Ago 3rd Year No 77 – Friday 27th January 1956 •           “I have made mistakes, but I have never made

MT 60 Years Ago 3rd Year No 77 – Friday 27th January 1956 •  “I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that

A pioneer in the struggle of the Indo-Mauritians & Indo-Fijians during the early 20th Century

The French were the first to settle in Mauritius permanently. Indians were expected to be birds of passage.

“Achète et lis avec confiance ces livres pleins de vérité. Tu acquerras cette sagesse, belle comme des perles. Tu y verras le chemin du salut. Afin que ta

MT 60 Yrs — 2nd Year No 55 – Friday 26 August 1955 — When the parliamentary delegation left for London everybody was wondering what the non-Labour members were

La société mauricienne est forte en accueil. Chefs d’Etat, conférenciers, vedettes de cinéma, du sport, bref autant de gens qui puissent créer un stimulus manquant ou tout simplement

2nd November & Indian Indentured Immigrants This year we shall be commemorating the beginning of the great wave of indentured labourers who were brought to the island to

The struggle for fairness and human dignity will never cease

Aapravasi Ghat