• Dev Virahsawmy (16 March 1942 – 7 November 2023) was a Mauritian politician, playwright, poet and advocate of the Mauritian Creole language. Though he...
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    School. The committee's first elected members were Heeralall Bhugaloo, Dev Virahsawmy, Jooneed Jeeroobhurkhan, Tirat Ramkissoon, Sushil Khushiram, Ah Ken...
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  • of the MMMSP such as Dev Virahsawmy, as well as Peter Craig and Dan Callikan of the FTU also assisted the new MSM. Dev Virahsawmy designed the MSM's symbol...
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  • Chasteauneuf near the round-about intersecting with Royal Road, Curepipe. MP Dev Virahsawmy was a passenger on the rear seat of Hillman B614, as it was being driven...
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  • Vijaya Teelock Harry Krishnan Tirvengadum Khal Torabully Cassam Uteem Dev Virahsawmy Football is the most popular sport amongst Mauritians. Vikash Dhorasoo...
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    South-African born Lindsey Collen-Seegobin writing in English and French, Dev Virahsawmy writing mostly in Mauritian Creole and Abhimanyu Unnuth writing in Hindi...
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  • (Kōkyū Shōsetsu, Bokkō). Albert Strickler, 68, French poet and author. Dev Virahsawmy, 81, Mauritian political activist, founder of Mauritian Militant Movement...
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  • currents, such as coolitude. After independence in 1968 writers like Dev Virahsawmy reactivated creole language, then considered as a "patois," and wrote...
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    Lekol (2017), free adaptations of 125 fables into Mauritian Creole by Dev Virahsawmy, accompanied by English texts drawn from The Aesop for Children (1919)...
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  • founded by a splinter group led by linguist, playwright and politician Dev Virahsawmy on 23 March 1973 soon after the dissidents had left the Mauritian Militant...
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