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Ira Mathur

Washing the dust from our eyes
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Back home after 15 months in Europe, I still marvel at the light. The way it sets rooms alight like tropical blooms, slopes across the curtains and on the floor, flames like fire in the dusk.
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Trials of being human
Sunday, January 10, 2016
No human has escaped the days when as we wake our hearts plummet, unequal to face the day. What we want to do is cover our face with the sheets and engulf ourselves under the darkness of cover.
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Missed opportunity for a cure
Sunday, January 3, 2016
“We have already used up almost US$2 billion of our foreign exchange reserves in 2015. Actions could have been taken earlier in the year to minimise this decline.
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Tending to the unlovely core
Sunday, December 27, 2015
The calendar seemed to be looking at me balefully as I packed in London, eager for the warmth of Trinidad, embodied by a poinsettia I saw at Victoria Station.
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Kamla washes her hands of the recession
Sunday, December 13, 2015
​Two years into her term as prime minister, I interviewed Kamla Persad-Bissessar (February 2012). She was sharp, with an undeniable charisma and unending confidence.
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breeding fanatics
Sunday, December 6, 2015
​I braced myself against the wind, stinging rain on my face, circumventing puddles on the pavement shiny slick with water, reflecting the dark on a lone street last Tuesday.
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Bombing will never change the battle of hearts and minds
Sunday, November 29, 2015
On a nippy November afternoon, I arrived in the small town of Chester. A taxi ride of 20 minutes took me to Hawarden in Wales. The driver stopped just outside what looked like a small manor house.
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Who’s next?
Sunday, November 22, 2015
​When I think of Paris I think of Valerie Gauriat, now the International Affairs reporter for Euronews.
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WE MUST ACCEPT REALITY TO SPUR CHANGE
Sunday, November 15, 2015
​Last week as I opened my front door in London to get my early morning treat of a cappuccino in my local coffee shop, I was confronted with a sea of policemen.
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Bring back Dwayne Gibbs
Sunday, November 8, 2015
​I was bemused by the ghoulish Halloween images that emerged out of Trinidad.
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