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Tuesday is Children’s and Elders’ Day :
What does the future hold for them?
Children and elders: Poles apart in age, but
nevertheless the two most vulnerable segments of society. Looking
back on our own childhood, most of us from privileged backgrounds
would remember the joys of growing up, the toys we were showered
with, birthday celebrations that our parents held for us, picnics,
sea baths, train rides, story books and the many wonderful things
that make a joyous childhood.
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Elders Day on October 1 :
Remembering the elderly
In its span of 68 long years, the UN has set in
motion a whole series of global initiatives to alert the world
community to its inescapable obligation to care for the
under-privileged, the marginalised, the vulnerable and the
endangered among us.
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Mauritius, an island of natural beauty
We visited Mauritius, a gem of an island closer
to Africa, hidden in the vastness of the Indian Ocean. To us,
Mauritius is important for many reasons. It has a link with the
history of our nation which we do not much talk about, perhaps
because of the sad ending of the story. As school children we learnt
in our history lessons how the last King of Sri Lanka, then Ceylon,
King Sri Wickrama Rajasinghe who fought gallantly to preserve the
freedom of our country was captured by the British rulers and sent
to Mauritius as a common prisoner.
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