Interview: Chetan Ramchurn ‘Should the chasm between the people and their representatives grow, we will be sitting on a ticking time bomb’ ‘Institutions are the men and women that make them. I would hope that they stand up for what is moral’
The observations of Chetan Ramchurn in this issue’s interview on the several aberrations that have marked the country this year are as usual sharp and to the point, quite in line with his usual
franc-parler. He is a private entrepreneur who has appeared several times in our columns, and he echoes the sentiments of the younger generation of patriots whose responsibility is to prepare the country for the future and as such his views have to be taken with all the seriousness that they deserve. Read on…
Matters of The Moment
The people are in no mood to be shortchanged or hoodwinked and are keeping a watching brief on the turn of events
By
Mrinal Roy
This burning question is in the minds of a majority of Mauritians at a time when so many things are awry in the country. People from all walks of life are angry and up in arms at the plummeting standards of governance, the unending array of scandals and allegations of corruption and other wrongdoings involving Ministers, the abject misuse of the national TV as a daily instrument of spin doctoring and propaganda at public expense, nepotism, the opacity shrouding the terms and conditions under which billions of Rupees of public bailout funds are advanced to distressed companies by the Mauritius Investment Corporation Ltd (MIC) and the complicit role of elected MPs in the shameful state of parliamentary democracy in the country.