Articles by Lindsey Collen

Contradictions and extremes on an island country ‘invented by colonization’.

Class or culture – which has caused Mauritius the most upset? Lindsey Collen looks back.

In her last Letter from Mauritius, Lindsey Collen finds trouble beneath the surface of a picture-perfect scene.

Economic crunch in Mauritius

Letter from Mauritius

Lindsey Collen drops in to a street summit while waiting for a tasty snack.

The breadfruit tree outside Lindsey Collen’s house needs pruning. But how to persuade Fareed to undertake the work?

Posters used to be protest space. Now they’re eaten up by glossy ads, laments Lindsey Collen.

How Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times predicted the reality of present-day Mauritius, by Lindsey Collen.

Lindsey Collen scampers on to rocks in search of grass.

Lindsey Collen on the fight for freedom of artistic expression.

The Chagos Islanders: Lindsey Collen introduces the women who have kept the decades-long struggle alive.

Lindsey Collen introduces two campaigning widows whose husbands died in police custody.

Mauritius goes to bizarre lengths to classify people by ethnicity or religion, as Lindsey Collen explains.

The shock after the last election was when the new Labour Government actually started to implement parts of its programme, writes Lindsey Collen.

How globalization came into the life of sugar labourer Kawlowtee, by Lindsey Collen.

In the first of a new series of monthly letters, novelist Lindsey Collen finds the long fingers of Bollywood stretch even to her own shores.