Birthdays Are Not What They Used To Be

Ton Tieke Kot Mexico?

Se repons kin gayne en pake fwa ler ti pe deman ban pros kot kav gayn ban zafer ki pa ti pe gayne fasilman. E preske tuletan ler ti pe al laba ti pe gayn zot. Pan tarde ditu pu kontan al dan sa magazin Vakwa la. Sifizaman kontan ki inpe zafer ki kav gayne laba ti pe fer en manier aste zot laba mem. In fer sa sistematikman. Esansielman parski leksperians la ti top. Sak fwa. Rezon prinsipal kifer li fin kumsa se interaksion ek France, so proprieter ki fek desede. Kel boner ki sa fin dire pandan tu sa deseni la. 

Mo fin trist ler mon apran so depar. Lerla mon reflesi kifer mo ti pe kontan al laba. Apar le fe ki France ti ekstreman sinpatik, Mexico ena en reynj prodwi ase larz. Lot zafer se ki France ti en bon vander. Li ti kon ekute byin. Par egzanp ler rant dan so magazin – kurb latet en tigit ek fer en ti slalom pu evit ban lartik ki apandan – nu ariv kot so kontwar/vitrin. De fwa li pu pe servi en klian donk nu atan en tigit e nu get li debruye. Nivo servis la elve parey. Ler ariv mo tur, li salie mwa "Alor meusieuh, ki manier?", mo repon li "Korek France, u ki manyer?". Si pe rod pil 3A li demande sipa pu kamera sa uswa pu en lot gadiet elektronik. Li bizin linformasion la pu kone si pa li tir ban version hevi-diuti. De fwa li poz en kestion ki mo pa tro konpran. Ler repons pa paret pu vin a tan, li poz en deziem pu sa kav oriant li vit ver en prodwi pli aproprie. Tusala suvan ek en ti rie omilie. Li ti fer sa pe inport ki pe rode. Genius Bar an plas. Plis en ti diskawnt.

Ti kav fer en zoli lartik pu en revi kuma Harvard Business Review lor fason ki France ti pe opere. En ti klip kuma telma dimun fin fer lor Omelette Man dan Jodhpur, Rajasthan ek lor ban lezot ki fin metriz zot lar/operasion ti pu en lot posibilite. Se posib ki kiken fin fer li. Tiabon. Sinpati a fami de France e 105,000 abitan de Vakwa/Fenix ki an dey. Byin ki lin ale, en dimun pa vreman mor tan ki kontinie koz so koze. Dan ka France nu bon suvenir de li pu res ar nu pandan lontan.

Gas Chambers Not Essential For Holocaust

The British didn't need one to kill 35 million Indians. The Turks didn't need one to slaughter 1.5 million Armenians. The Pakistani army didn't need one to murder 3 million citizens of Pakistan. The Germans didn't one in Namibia. The French didn't need one in Algeria. And that's not even an exhaustive list. For all this reasons the UN should remember all Holocausts on January 27, not just one.

Powerhouse Ranking Needs Some Updating

You can watch the first four here.

Who Served As Labour Party General Secretary the Longest?

When Kalyanee Juggoo resigned as General Secretary of the Mauritius Labour Party recently Arvin Boolell wondered if the 13 years she had served in that position wasn't the longest. We knew she didn't but went to find out. 

Why Recall Elections Are Seriously Overdue in Mauritius

Big B At 80

It's difficult to remember exactly how big a fan of megastar Amitabh Bachchan I was when I was growing up. That's because there was also Pele. Then Cruyff. Then Sting and The Police. Zeenat Aman somewhere in there. Followed later by plenty others including his Airness. Plus Bolt. I do recall perfectly though that in the 1970s and early 1980s when I saw him on a movie poster I had to go see that flick. And boy was that a treat! 

One of the most exciting moments about my connection with AB was when our parents told us that they had a secret to tell us: Big B was coming to Mauritius! Fate would have it otherwise though. AB got hurt on the set of Coolie and almost lost his life in July 1982. It's great that he recovered and went on to do so much work. Watching the movies of the Angry Young Man who Truffaut dubbed a one-man industry is great but adding a listen of him talk about his craft and life trajectory is priceless.

Why Ukraine Conflict Was Predictable

Listen to this interesting talk by John Mearsheimer and get many obvious answers: Ukraine is a badly-divided country, the Monroe Doctrine and more. 

Discussing Electoral Reform With ReA

I spent plenty of hours over a number of years doing just that quite a long time ago with their strongman Ashok Subron. I had to stop talking to him when he told me that he was against double candidacies only to announce in a press conference afterwards that he was for them. Since then it has appeared in their electoral manifesto. While the obligation for a candidate to declare herself in one of the four dumb categories has to go we don’t need or want a dose of PR to do that. And we’re definitely not going to Viv to Morisianism with the resultant chronic political uncertainty and drastic loss of accountability which would accompany the corrupting of our FPTP system, the best electoral system in the world.

I spent about one hour with another long-standing member after he said he was in favour of a dose of PR. I hadn’t finish my explanation that he told me two things: “my god, what we've been proposing is so dangerous!” and “thank you so much for explaining this to me.” I went on to share some other implications of a dose of PR that are seldom discussed.

A third member told me he was for a dose of PR for the same fallacious reasons ReA have kept on harping for way too long. I showed him what Mauritian voters have been able to do with their PMs via our excellent FPTP system and how we'd lose this powerful tool with a dose of PR. His arguments were wishy-washy but he said he was open to changing his mind. By the way, I showed the same clip to a prominent member of Lalit and that gave her pause.

During my last discussion on electoral reform with a ReA member the latter agreed with my point that it indeed didn't make any sense to have 20 PR MPs each time because the lopsidedness that they sought to correct was not the same in every election. However, he told me that the political uncertainty a dose of PR would create is good. And that he had a solution. It's been almost two years. And still no sight of a solution.

Where Main Parties Stood When We Voted in November 2019

The three main blocks were very similar at the time. Lalit was right on all but one major issues.