All of this for Rs 200. plus got a refund of Rs 400 out of my remaining subscription.

I wish I went there earlier during the week

I was a member of BC since the 80′s and indeed they ruined it when they introduced the PC’s. Yes it is sad for an IT person to say that but as everybody is saying it became a bazaar where kids would play games on miniclip.com and the silence that I treasured every saturday just went away. I event wrote a comment about that in their visitor’s book but I guess nobody read it.

So, as at today you don’t have a decent, silent place to sit down and read in Rose Hill. I know there’s the municipal library but I’ve never been there and I’m sure it is a place where kids go to “frequenter”.

It again shows how the French do everything to promote their language and culture around the world while the british take English for granted. I won’t even comment watching MI-5 in French that would be off topic.

I am very very sad .

It is true it became something resembling a marketplace later, but I used to love to read the foreign papers there. Obviously, the sports pages were huge favourites, but it was like my doorway to the outside world!

I am guessing the British Council will still be active in Mauritius. They used to do very informative sessions on further studies in the UK.

Reasons why I left:
1. Overpriced subscription for students & adults alike.
2. Overabundant British books – want a book about New Labour? No problem, you’ll have dozens out there. Where’s the so called ‘variety’?
2. Lack of computing literature. Yeah… same old Dbase & VB books.
3. Crappy and ‘racist’ service (don’t get me wrong here… maybe you experienced it too)
4. It became a bazaar in the 21st century, as you rightly pointed out.
5. It fell victim to the slow death of English in this country. Alas… but they’ve got themselves to blame for it – in part.
6. Exorbitant late return penalties – I leave this to you

15 years ago, the library was a tranquil place where one could really educate himself/herself. Now it’s a bloody mediathèque with noise everywhere. I can’t understand how this modern decision was taken!