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Ce n'est pas d'hier que les médias nous inondent de faits divers les uns plus sordides que les autres, avec une croissance remarquablement inquiétante des crimes sexuels envers des victimes aux multiples visages. La question reste entière : le nombre de délits sexuels augmente-t-il au fil des ans ou trouvons-nous de plus en plus le courage de les dénoncer grâce à une meilleure connaissance ?

“She loved my son.  She was intelligent, well-mannered and gentle.  She impressed me.  A nice girl, but you know…she was not fair enough for my son.  She was brown-skinned, while I actually needed someone fairer, hence more beautiful, for my son.  I commanded my son to get married to a fair girl.

At the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, an angel investor is experimenting with a scheme that will allow students to take up entrepreneurship as a minor subject while studying for their engineering degree full time. Elsewhere in the Silicon Valley, a group of entrepreneurs are delivering a MicroMBA, summer-school style to 16-year-old high school students while encouraging them to consider creating their own startups.

La Moitié du ciel de Nicholas D. Kristof et de Sheryl WuDunn, m’attend depuis quelques jours sur ma table de chevet. Aussi enveloppant qu’il soit, il m’est impossible d’en lire plus d’une dizaine de pages par jour.

Much has recently been written and published on the preliminary reports submitted by Geoffroy Robertson on media reform in Mauritius, the Singaporean team on the recent flash floods and also on the increasing political role played by a number of socio-cultural organisations. Consequently, I said to myself that it would be superfluous to write on those issues, but then I thought I could briefly look at them together from a different angle.

Ce bâtiment est non seulement construit dans le lit de cette rivière à Pailles (zone inondée le 30 mars 2013), mais il y déverse aussi ses eaux usées comme on peut le voir sur la photo. Qui a délivré le permis de construction pour ce bâtiment ? Avis à la municipalité de Port-Louis et à la Police de l’Environnement.

To be hurled or whispered obscenities, to be grabbed, squeezed, deliberately bumped into or leant against, to feel a creepy hand stealthily running up and down your thighs, or an elbow ploughing into your bust while the person seated next to you is opening up the newspapers wide…. all these are but a few examples of perverts hard at work, on a daily basis.

The Association of Mahatma Gandhi Institute Senior Staff (AMGISS) is writing this open letter on behalf of academics of the Tertiary Sector of the MGI.

We have an overdose of scandals suffocating us … one crony walking in a European city with Rs300m in a suitcase, another crony doubling your investment on the drop of a hat and yet another crony disappearing with millions without the Financial Regulators ever spotting him at check-points.

125 Women of Impact- such is the title of last week's issue of Newsweek. The stories are inspiring to say the least, and are a motivation to many out there. These women propel us to realise that the world is indeed our oyster and that we can achieve anything we want. Yet, the reality is so different for many of us in the local context.

La grande souffrance humaine, toujours très vive, qui perdure suite à cette terrible tragédie du 30 mars, mérite que l'on n'en fasse pas prétexte à polémique stérile.