But life is so full of surprises – your footsteps sometimes take you where you do not dream of going in the first place. To cut a long story short, I was swimming against the tide when I returned to newlyindependent Mauritius in 1968 after my studies.
The flow was very much in the other direction, with people leaving in droves, searching for better prospects, as Mauritius was seen as a basket-case with no prospects whatever.