Articles tagged "Mauritius"

Insularity, Mobility, and Imagination: Writing from the Indian Ocean (Mag: Articles)

By Françoise Lionnet | May 1, 2012

In early March 2011, two news items about Mauritius landed in my inbox almost simultaneously: one, a glowing article in the U. S. news magazine Slate, titled “The Greatest Country on Earth,”…...

Center of Flacq (Mag: Articles)

By Barlen Pyamootoo | May 1, 2012

At the first rays of dawn, when the dogs abandon their posts and the vagrants their cardboard boxes, the most pointless of prayers ascends into the sky. A plea. God, grant us this day our daily bread .…...

Translated from French by Danielle McLimore

Traces of Our Fathers (Mag: Articles)

By Alain Gordon Gentil | May 1, 2012

Writer, journalist, and filmmaker Alain Gordon Gentil has recently finished shooting four documentaries that retrace the great Indian, African, French, and Chinese adventure of immigration to the Mauritian…...

Translated from French by Alexis Pernsteiner and Antoine Bargel

Weaving Dreams (Mag: Articles)

By Ananda Devi | May 1, 2012

And as he gazes at her, their soul-child is conceived (Henri Michaux, Life Within the Folds) That day as she finished weaving the few meters that would wind seamlessly around her body, she tied…...

Translated from French by Jean Anderson bilingual version

Urdu (Data: Languages)

By Bud P. | October 13, 2009

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