The puzzling rub of the rupee

In 2007 an anti-corruption group in India developed a rather creative way to help people ‘just say no’ to corruption.
The ‘5th Pillar’ as the group is known printed some 25,000 rupee notes that had the official Mahatma Gandhi and design on the face of the note and a mission statement about anti-corruption on the other side.
The [...]

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When it’s o.k. to pollute

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is currently wrapping up an official visit to India. Because the population of Mauritius is almost 60% 1st, 2nd or 3rd generation Indian, I am rather keen to know what goes on and down in what is referred to as the sister country here on the island.
Try as I [...]

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The Italian Wife

This week there has been one item in the world news that I find too interesting to ignore.  Pulling up my daily news sites and scanning quickly through the international section, I skim the posts about war and politics until I come to what has now become a daily treat of ‘he said, she said’.
The failure of a marriage gone wrong [...]

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