Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author)
Blog: The Status of the Family in Mauritius
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 11th of May 2012 - 03:06:00]
We have always thought of the family as the prime engine of social organisation and the spearhead of progress or degradation. The importance of the family is corollary to the sacred status given to marriage and the view that the child is, above all, one who perpetuates the name of the family. The wear and tear of institutions, the erosion of the primal meaning of social values, the dereliction of seriousness of social practices have caused a rebellion against these very values that were hallowed at a certain time but have become constraining with time.
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Blog: Letter to Our Youth
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 4th of May 2012 - 03:54:00]
This letter has a circumstantial motivation because you are living a disturbed period and may in the sweep of events become subject to the nervousness and frenzy created by the media. After all, the common man has only the media to feed his daily thoughts with....
Blog: Weakest Link in our Health System - Health Education
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 20th of April 2012 - 06:14:00]
For a country that has a Welfare State system ambitious enough to provide not only mass-medicine but also state-of-the-art technology and expertise for complex ailments it is very sad that our nutritionists and the preventive agency of non-communicable disease (NCD) sector have failed miserably to sustain the curative sector....
Blog: CPE Reforms - what vision of society?
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 13th of April 2012 - 15:15:00]
We often make the mistake of making the CPE become an academic debate to satisfy an egalitarian view of our society. We perceive equality as a measure that deals the same amount to each irrespective of his origin. We forget that the State has the responsibility of sustaining different classes of our multi-tiered social structure....
Blog: Our Democracy’s Failure to face Hijacks
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 6th of April 2012 - 11:56:00]
We are living odd times of unnecessary insecurity. We have a long way to go before the next elections, and just as the MMM would wish if it had been in power, a government with a clear mandate must be given the deserved freedom to complete and fulfil the covenant made with the people. Power in a civilised society cannot be the mistress whom all men ogle at. It has to be won at the cost of democratic means by validity of one's programme and winning their approval....
Blog: Lida O’Reilly spells out the way ahead
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of March 2012 - 01:58:00]
Lida O'Reilly is a fashion designer of acknowledged superiority of intellect, skill and interpersonal expertise. She has mounted several fashion shows in European megapolis and the one she put up at Jaipur, India, allowed the MBC to probe into a sensitive mind, fundamentally inclusive of all experiences, accommodating differences and responsive to specificities....
Blog: Santosh Kumar on SKM (Part II)
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 23rd of March 2012 - 15:37:00]
What is your contribution to the schools?
I was a civil servant appointed to implement policies. I cannot be presumptuous enough to assert that I was the inventor of policies However, I have been frontally involved in the application, monitoring and operationalisation of the "Bridging the Gap" project after Mrs P. Gokhool had started it at pilot level....
Blog: Santosh Kumar on SKM (Part I)
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of March 2012 - 06:57:00]
Who is Santosh Kumar Mahadeo?
He is a man of average intelligence who has grown up in an inordinately competitive world which never defined the threshold of refinement, success, excellence and happiness....
Blog: Our Democracy has to be rethought
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 9th of March 2012 - 00:51:00]
Forty-four years of independence. Indeed we have travelled very far from the fledging we were in 1968 and we can be proud of having accomplished certain feats despite our humble origins....
Blog: Spiritual Masters, you said?
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 2nd of March 2012 - 02:28:00]
This week’s end added a sensational item to the list of personalities who win your admiration for some time and on being unmasked reveal hideous aspects of character that make us think there are many who parade ostentatiously as spiritual masters but suffer from egomania that they castigate in every circle....
Blog: Diagnosis of Violence against Pilgrims
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 24th of February 2012 - 03:14:00]
Is there any cause for the insidious acts of violence by officers of the State responsible for law and order to disturb the peace and harmony in Mauritius?...
Blog: Profile of a University Student
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 10th of February 2012 - 03:54:00]
At different epochs in the young history of our university, we have paused to enquire about the profile of a typical university student. He is not a student who needs to be spoon-fed. In fact the major distraction in the upper secondary system lies in narrowing knowledge to the strict frontiers dictated by the syllabus and learning only for what is examinable....
Blog: Free Textbooks
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 27th of January 2012 - 02:19:00]
Why shouldn't government decide to relieve parents of the heavy financial burden of spending thousands of rupees on textbooks which differ from school to school, and which give way to the production of poorly conceived books by Mauritian authors? Some of these authors hide behind American/British pennames in order to lure readers....
Blog: Addendum necessary for the Reform Agenda
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 20th of January 2012 - 02:40:00]
If the need to nurture an elite remains in the agenda of the Minister of Education, and if this elite tactically blends with the mass in a spirit of equal opportunities and within the framework of democracy, the admission of students of CPE or its variant will only help to divide our State Secondary Schools into three main categories - the star schools, the less popular and yet well performing schools like the France Boyer de la Giroday SSS or Sodnac SSS, and the least popular schools that are associated with rowdy youth, demotivated teachers, poor school leadership and therefore poor academic performance....
Blog: Final Resolutions
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 6th of January 2012 - 02:44:00]
It would have been strange if we had lived a specially cosy 2011 in the midst of floundering European and American economies, in the offing of the Arab uprising which saw the death, expulsion and murder of tyrants, dictators and political psychopaths like Bin Laden....
Blog: Ministry of Education’s Epiphany
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 30th of December 2011 - 12:00:00]
Reports say the Ministry of Education is unhappy with CPE results of 2011. Let it be understood why CPE cannot grow out of the mire and miasma in which our system is locked....
Blog: Reforms in the Senior Scholarship System
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Monday 26th of December 2011 - 10:59:00]
Mauritius is a brilliant example of a democracy solicitous of providing equal opportunities to all,using the tools of positive discrimination to bring further equality where nature and accident have created disparities....
Blog: Is forgiveness realistic?
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of December 2011 - 01:21:00]
The Truth and Justice Commission has recommended ‘reparations’ instead of compensation for the harm done to slaves. Here again it is interpretation that saves the foundational authors of the report. Apart from the rapacious occupation, seizure, prescription or robbery of land belonging to the poor and weak, the damage has been psychological, economic and spiritual....
Blog: Popularity is not enough
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 9th of December 2011 - 02:07:00]
The people's support makes leaders and they stay in power as long as the going is good. Were Papandreou of Greece or Berlusconi of Italy successful leaders? The political popularity of leaders by democratic means is a transient, volatile fidelity because the mass is a selfish, pleasure-seeking, hypocritical lot that entertains a hero as long as it can cash its cheque of desires and needs at the leader's till....
Blog: Leadership in critical Pass
[Written by S. K. Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 2nd of December 2011 - 03:47:00]
From observations made at long distance and reported feedback, the PM adopts a non-interventionist approach of a leader to one he has trusted. He judges in all his wisdom that a particular individual has the profile for a post and can assume leadership. If the nominee can safeguard the interests of the party and champion the cause of the public consumer, he is allowed to do his job undisturbed....
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