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Comment: Maldivians helping 700,000 non-Muslims go to hell every year

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Mamduh Waheed writes, “It is one thing to have attitudes about things, but it is quite another to enshrine them in the highest code of regulation for a community, the Constitution.”


Sarudhaaru Dhon Maniku: the pioneer of ‘souvenir’ art in the Maldives

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Even though SDM was noticed for his talents at an early age in the 1940s and ‘50s, he says it was the advent of tourism in the early 1970s that really helped him to carve out a profession in which he could dedicate his skills as an artist and craftsman fully to his profession, writes Mamduh Waheed.