# Memories

I met a man 3 years ago. We had an immediate connection, which at first, I thought was weird, because it never happened me before!  After that day, he contacted me and we talked for hours… we felt so good and got each other for everything. I couldn’t believe that I met this man, he was so res...

 For each of my best friends, I’ve had a cute or silly way I met each of them, and always found out that we be friends instantly. I would recite the story a few years later, with a grin. But sometimes, you do not have a funny story or a sweet way you met your best friend. For Brey, I don’t. I k...

There are no such great people anymore. So brave, so loving, so indefatigable optimistic, as my great-grandmother and great-grandfather were. Although they were born in the 1920s and we had a huge age difference, my granny Eugenia and grandpa Vasiliy were those with whom I always wanted to share the...

Have you ever felt you've found your soulmate, right from the first moment you've met them? Have you ever felt a complete stranger is your closest family member? Well, I did.   Now you probably expect to read a story about a boyfriend or husband, but let me tell you something: you can discover y...

Dear Mama, I just want you to know that I miss you dearly and will always hold you in my heart. But there are times when all I want to do is hold you right now; hold onto you like I used to do when I was a little child. I remember the hugs and kisses we used to give each other. I was always the one...

Let me tell you a story of a man... Whose father died when he was only five. At age of 13, he left school and left home to live by himself. He started working as a farmer when he was 14. At the age of 16, he worked as a streetcar conductor. At the age of 19-20, he worked as a fireman. But he lost h...

Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam–Father of the Nation Towards National Unity Men of vision feel the pulse of the future and project themselves Into an era, which does not exist in palpable time Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam (1900-1985), 1st Prime Minister of Mauritius Those who are endowed with the fa...

Rabindranath Tagore Holding the Poet in One's Heart Rabindranath Tagore 1861 - 1941 Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high Where knowledge is free Where the world has not been broken up into fragments By narrow domestic walls Where words come out from the path of truth ...

Tribute to the 19th Century Indentured Labourers – Makers of New Colonies However much we belong to our time And live in modern material comfort, Something in us will always bring  us round To the melancholy of our ancestors...  --- Richard Millet Newly arrived Indian Immigrants in Trini...

In the beginning of my work as a journalist specialized in the cultural affairs in Egypt, I had a short, but so impressive phone call with the great Egyptian poet Abd El Rahman Al Abanody, God rest his soul. He was so sick at this time and also was in a visit to his ill sister. In the first moments...