Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author)

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Blog: To Ved Gopee and others
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 17th of May 2013 - 07:50:00]


I am not supposed to write about you because, apparently, there is a prima facie case against you and you are under a charge allegedly related to a violation of the Equal Opportunities Act. It seems that someone has, with premeditation, studied the underpinnings of the legal system in order to pin down for whatever you did to provoke this predicament.


Blog: Violence against school authorities
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 3rd of May 2013 - 04:34:00]


These are hard times because nothing seems to stay. We seem to be standing on a floor which is revolving, escalating, sinking in a trough and leveling flat. Our ancient heritage is being dilapidated. Like boys who tease a beehive with a pebble and think they can run faster than the bees dispossessed of a house can fly. We forget that we have ourselves brought up the boys giving them all the freedom we did not enjoy and expecting the same respect that we give to authorities or the elderly. The teasing is ours because we have brought them up with the freedom they have taken....

Blog: Meeting parents’ panic
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 26th of April 2013 - 12:35:00]


Girls’ parents in the middle class who are responsible for the upbringing of daughters going to secondary schools seem to be living in perpetual fear of loss, of the danger of an act of filial treachery....

Blog: Mauritian solidarity must be respected
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 19th of April 2013 - 09:00:00]


We have been looking for it in languages and we have seen each child going his way to his Asian language class. The Oriental language group is still looked down upon despite years of cohabitation or because of it. We have been looking for patriotism in our school curricula and we have gradually banished from them all the footprints that have marked the making of a national spirit....

Blog: Era of hoax and deception
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 12th of April 2013 - 08:21:00]


We are living a long drawn period of hoodwinking and deceit at the hands of sharpminded and highly educated confidence tricksters at global level. After Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, we have seen the fraud of B.Ramalinga Raju, the disgraced founder of Satyam. It is sad that even after his fraud was exposed, he continued receiving the support of many employees who believed in their boss....

Blog: … While the police squabbled over jurisdiction
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 29th of March 2013 - 10:36:00]


The BBC has a report that is stinging about the bureaucratic reaction of policemen in post when they were confronted with the task of providing immediate and urgent assistance to the lady student of Physiotherapy who was raped by six beasts in the guise of humans in a Delhi bus a few weeks ago. Where was the rape committed? Where does the owner of the bus live? Which Police station should take administrative care of the case?...

Blog: How far have feminists been successful?
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Saturday 9th of March 2013 - 11:13:00]


Women today are shy of being called feminists because of the negative stereotypes associated with the word. While universal, unconditional women’s suffrage, equal pay for equal work laws, educational rights, diminishment of mandatory gender roles, are among the victories of cultural feminism, there are areas like the absence of power over reproductive rights, the number of sexual assault and harassment cases which indicate more concretely the intrinsic inadequacy of the freedom for equality which feminism is expected to bring....

Blog: What society expects from leaders
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 1st of March 2013 - 01:57:00]


The world offers a wide variety of specimens of leaders. While many inherit the vices that power or absolute power can proliferate in terms of management of self and delegated authority, a few stand out because many combine qualities that make them rise above the stereotype....

Blog: Dire need for greater mental sanity
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 22nd of February 2013 - 02:54:00]


One of the foremost problems of our society is the frightening increase of mentally sick beings. Many have to be sent to psychiatric wards and similar institutions - to say nothing of the growing number of acutely neurotic and mentally unbalanced persons who are officially considered sane and yet whose psychological abnormalities and vagaries induce still more conflicts and mental-emotional disturbances in their children and marriage partners....

Blog: What Our Youth Should Know At 18?
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 15th of February 2013 - 11:30:00]


The system is so narrowly geared to examinations that merit lies in grabbing troves of A+ by wearing a blinkered view of life. Had it not been for the rare privilege of a stable home, many academically successful youth would have been unrelieved rogues, as many are....

Blog: Understanding performance
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Saturday 9th of February 2013 - 01:50:00]


At a time when SC and HSC results become the yardsticks for accountability, we should know that the pass rate paraded by schools gives a warped perception of the school. 95% pass rate includes passes without credit passes. Seven and eight units are poor performances in terms of knowledge and skills. Such students usually scrape through at A level because their poor grasp of basic concepts blocks understanding of complexities at upper levels....

Blog: The sexual behaviour of leaders
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 1st of February 2013 - 03:42:00]


There is an apprehension in the media to confront a live issue - does the sexual behaviour of our leaders matter to the extent of disqualifying them of active political life if there are suspicions of a violation from the norm. Why should it matter that a political leader should have an exemplary, i.e, stern, austere and even puritanical, attitude to sex while the pilot is free to indulge in promiscuities right and left....

Blog: An exerciser for the retiree
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 25th of January 2013 - 09:13:00]


I hardly knew words do not have to be taken for their face value, because words' faces change disguises like those of men. Old age is for rest and ultimately I reached the crest of the hill when the autumn of life weakens your limbs, introduces jabs of ache in your bones and muscles and I seemed to have an instinctive leaning for seating pleasures....

Blog: Why such a discontent?
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 18th of January 2013 - 05:27:00]


180,000 cases of sexual violence against women impending upon the Indian Judicial system and yet the gang rape of a medical student in Delhi raised such a storm of discontent that Delhi was paralyzed for days, a three-day mourning has been declared after the girl's demise in Singapore....

Blog: One Year of Trial and Error in the Ministry of Education
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 11th of January 2013 - 09:19:00]


Bunwaree deserves my warmest congratulations upon having tried to effectively improve performance through enhancement of learning in class. He believes to the marrows of his being that learning for the mass does not take place through the classical formal method of chalk and talk. He like Gokhool is convinced that play can yield more positive outcome than the stern method of the magister?...

Blog: When the System breaks…
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 28th of December 2012 - 09:29:00]


At the closing ceremony of a seminar organized by NICE, the PM said that the system obstructs nation building. He was referring to an electoral system which is backed by constitutional stipulations about the division of Mauritian society into 4 main ethnic groups. For him it is these legal dispositions that have made Mauritians become community obsessed so much so that however much we will it is difficult to separate communalism from politics. If young people who are the repositories of the future, look forward towards a country that can pride itself of a national identity, we need another system. That is why we need electoral reforms....

Blog: The Man who said He was God
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 21st of December 2012 - 15:31:00]


The Mauritian, however educated, is today ambushed by anxiety and stress to such an extent that he needs guidance. Marriage has failed because it cements a fake relationship of apparent unity when, in fact, it bonds loosely two persons who are tired of being together. The couple either echoes each other or expresses the angst of failed love in tempestuous violence....

Blog: Money does not always buy Quality
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 14th of December 2012 - 13:56:00]


How much money will ZEP schools swallow for us to help children who live in challenging circumstances? Every budget brings a whole trove of benefits that aim at further empowering the schools that are responsible for children living in difficult conditions....

Blog: Changing Faces
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 23rd of November 2012 - 11:21:00]


The two world wars ended and brought in their wake a trail of social transformations in the rest of the world. The era of colonizers and their imperialistic and arrogant reign over countries which they deemed as uncivilized were floundered, not without deep social dislocations. The partition in India, the decolonization of Africa, the emergence and the fall of communism were products of the severe impact of certain forceful, momentous historical events. Politically the post-war world has never been the same as it was earlier....

Blog: Unity in Diversity is still Unity
[Written by Santosh Kumar Mahadeo (Guest Author) on Friday 16th of November 2012 - 12:28:00]


It is not what our leaders say on the political rostrum that constitutes reality in its totality. It is the ground reality that makes nationhood or disturbs it. Here are certain disturbing events culled from the harsh reality of the ground....

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