The Rambler
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The mating season
- By The Rambler
- Published 16th May, 2008
The war of the crowds seems to have died down at long last, and it is hoped that Wednesday's heavy downpour may have cooled down the ardour that lasted much too long. The political landscape was usual...
The numbers syndrome
- By The Rambler
- Published 9th May, 2008
Here’s a twenty-four thousand dollar question for you: which May Day circus drew the biggest crowd? If you can answer this question it will be proved that “ your wit makes wise things fool...
May Day or Mayday?
- By The Rambler
- Published 1st May, 2008
For the main political parties Labour Day 2008 looks more like a Mayday than a May Day. Mayday, it will be recalled, is a sort of SOS, an international distress signal used by ships and aircraft. It i...
Famine at the door
- By The Rambler
- Published 25th April, 2008
The world is hungry. It is hungry for several reasons, the main reason being that there is not enough food to feed the teeming millions. More and more mouths are showing up at feeding time on the one ...
Spare the rod
- By The Rambler
- Published 18th April, 2008
Students' behaviour on the school premises and outside is achieving serious, intolerable proportions and giving rise to much concern. With a view to assessing the gravity of the situation and finding ...
For a pound of rice
- By The Rambler
- Published 11th April, 2008
Rice, the staple food adopted by the whole Mauritian population since
centuries, in not produced in Mauritius. If some of our flour, the
other staple food of Mauritians, is produced here, the wheat ...
Tell Laura we love her
- By The Rambler
- Published 4th April, 2008
Among the myriad virtues that the Lord Almighty has endowed our current Minister of Education and Human Resources with, the one which stands out the most is, by far, his steadfastness, his doggedness,...
It never rains, but it pours
- By The Rambler
- Published 28th March, 2008
The rains have brought us an abundance of water, and it's been water, water everywhere with plenty to drink. After a worrying spell of prolonged drought, the land has at long last been blessed with th...
Lev Paké etc.
- By The Rambler
- Published 21st March, 2008
We cannot, like Shakespeare, say that “This was the most unkindest cut of all.” First, because if we did, Cambridge would penalise us for using bad English. Then, we do not know for sure w...
The “Métissage” syndrome
- By The Rambler
- Published 14th March, 2008
In a rather interesting interview with Week-End Scope last week, Percy Yip Tong declares that he doesn't believe in “unity in diversity” but in “unity in reality.”Such a statem...
