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By Krishna Bhardwaj
From time to time, a controversy gets sparked off locally whenever a local paper would refer to news reports appearing in the Indian media about negotiations/deal between India and Mauritius for Agalega to be ceded to India. Successive Prime Ministers have strongly denied that there was any deal of the sort. If one were to rise beyond petty considerations, there is much we can do by putting a premium on our geographical location and our existing privileged relations with the parties having a geostrategic interest in the Indian Ocean.
At one time, Mauritius used to be referred to as the “land of rainbows, waterfalls and shooting stars” as well as the “star and the key of the Indian Ocean”. To the kids who were being taught geography in such terms in those colonial days, the latter phrase conveyed a romantic view of the beauty of their island home. Little did they suspect that the real reference was to Mauritius’ location in the southern Indian ....

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