Archive for February, 2015

The Rilwan Story

Filed in Features & Analysis by on February 9, 2015 13 Comments
The Rilwan Story

I remember the exact moment when I first saw Ahmed Rilwan. It was late 2009, and I had just arrived in the Maldives. Some bloggers had gotten together to sort of welcome me and get introduced. We were sitting in a sea-side café at night, when he walked in with two other well known bloggers. We hit […]

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The Girl in the Poster

Filed in Offbeat by on February 4, 2015 1 Comment
The Girl in the Poster

The Poster Seller I was still in school, maybe in the sixth grade. My sister was three years my senior. At the time we were living in Trivandrum, in this two-storeyed house just off a narrow street. Right from when I could first remember, there would come to our place a man who sold posters for […]

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