Tag: featured

This Week in Maldives: January 8

Filed in This Week In Maldives by on January 9, 2017 3 Comments
This Week in Maldives: January 8

Because you guys liked, RT’d and shared the hell out of the last edition, this week I focus on aqeeda-endangering textbooks, Dunya’s return to the dark side, and Muizzu engaged in a series of unfortunate Muizzed up things. These are short takes on the headlines of the week gone by. Dunya rejoins the regime Dunya […]

Continue Reading »

Dhoonidhoo Diaries: Part 3 – Heat and Captivity

Filed in Features & Analysis by on August 22, 2015 1 Comment
Dhoonidhoo Diaries: Part 3 – Heat and Captivity

This is the third instalment in the Dhoonidhoo Diaries series where I pen down my experiences in Dhoonidhoo prison where I was incarcerated following an unprecedented regime crackdown on the May Day rally. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Nearly 200 democratic protesters were arrested on 1st May 2015 by the Maldives’ authoritarian […]

Continue Reading »

Dhoonidhoo Diaries: Part 2 – Prison Cell

Filed in Features & Analysis by on July 18, 2015 5 Comments
Dhoonidhoo Diaries: Part 2 – Prison Cell

1st May 2015 saw the largest anti-government protests in Maldivian history, with nearly 20,000 protesters filling the main thoroughfare in Malé. I was among the nearly 200 democratic protesters arrested that day, in the largest police crackdown in over a decade. I was released after being held for 21 days without trial. But several May […]

Continue Reading »

Dhoonidhoo Diaries: Part 1 – Arrest and Incarceration

Filed in Features & Analysis by on June 29, 2015 4 Comments
Dhoonidhoo Diaries: Part 1 – Arrest and Incarceration

1st May 2015 saw the largest anti-government protests in Maldivian history, with nearly 20,000 protesters filling the main thoroughfare in Malé. It also saw the largest police crackdown in over a decade, with nearly 200 democratic protesters arrested. I was among those arrested, and was held captive for 21 days, including 5 days of house […]

Continue Reading »

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 […]

Continue Reading »

The Strange Case of Dr Hassan & Mr Saeed

Filed in Features & Analysis, Politics by on November 11, 2013 0 Comments
The Strange Case of Dr Hassan & Mr Saeed

Dr Hassan Saeed is an educated, articulate man. The Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) leader, former Attorney General and one time Presidential hopeful has penned a series of articles in a local daily, in which he outlines his vision for a democratic future for the Maldives – although one could argue that much of it is […]

Continue Reading »

Colourless. Feckless.

Filed in Offbeat by on November 8, 2013 6 Comments
Colourless. Feckless.

There is a malaise in the country that I’ve been meaning to vent out about. I must begin by saying there are plenty of people I strongly and vehemently disagree with, but nevertheless admire.To take an extreme example, I’ve often said that Osama bin Laden could have easily lived the rest of his life in […]

Continue Reading »

The Dangerous Cat & Mouse Game

Filed in Offbeat by on November 8, 2013 0 Comments
The Dangerous Cat & Mouse Game

Have you ever wondered why extremists are so addicted to violence? Surely, there must be something that explains all that fascination for dynamite, guns, beheading and all sorts of explosions, right? Well, guess what. Your favourite blogger has finally arrived at the ultimate answer to all that apparently inexplicable violence. Tom & Jerry. If my […]

Continue Reading »