Is Gasim Ibrahim the Maldives equal of Thailand’s Thaksin Shinawatra? Gasim, for certain, has the means; looking at the direction of unfolding events and the gossips in tea shops he appears to have a plan in place which he is tirelessly acting on.
Thaksin had his support based and bread at the poor villages in the […]
Entries from September 2007
What is Buruma Gasim in the making? A Thaksin Shinawatra?
September 18th, 2007 · 22 Comments
Filed Under: people:n:power
How should the rightful freedoms of a Maldivian citizen be defined?
September 7th, 2007 · 16 Comments
Twentieth-century philosopher Isaiah Berlin (1909–97) suggested when people talk about political freedom they have two concepts in mind and he named them as positive freedom and negative freedom.
HaveeruOnline reports women working at the Immigrations Department have been allowed to wear head scarf as of today. Haveeru also quoted Shafiu – an official from that department […]
Filed Under: philosophically
Student discipline; should we use traditional way or British way; an appalling story anyway!
September 4th, 2007 · 15 Comments
A bag of dirty water got splashed on my shoulder. It came from one of the upper floor classrooms while Ashraf and I were walking down by the Majeediyya School at around 11.00 am in the morning. That was two months ago.
Another pedestrian, my friend and I knocked on the door of Assistant Principal […]
Filed Under: bouncing:thoughts