Lindsey Collen

“Strangely, all four portrayals contain both truth and lies. Mauritius is like that. Contradictions and extremes"”

“It is a country invented by colonization. Perhaps this fact makes for extremes, in that there is not the moderating influence of a millennial history. Or maybe it is ‘cyclones’, those visitations that build and build and then wreak havoc, from time to time.”