When Indians think of Mauritius, they think of high society weddings, beautiful beaches and if they work in the financial field, about tax planning.
Most people from southern India’s Tamil Nadu state speak Tamil when they are children. Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan was fl uent in a dialect spoken in Fujian, the southeastern province in China that saw its residents fan out outside the country for their livelihood.
This is the first publication of Global Finance Mauritius, the apex organisation of the financial services industry in Mauritius.
This feature article, about a Chinese-origin man in Mangalore who is now learning Chinese from an Indian tutor in Bangalore in order to connect with his extended family in China, was published in DNA.