Nazimbe with his paintings: Photo credit Shaari. Take a hike Edgelords, this exhibition isn’t going to curb your teen angst – come back...

When is an idea 'bad'? Does it have anything to do with its truth content, perceived and actual? Read more on Korali.

The gate to Lonuziyaaraiy Park. It was a beautiful day today and I caught up with a friend after a long time. We decided to go for a...

A house in Male - credit unknown. To step back and take the world into account, that’s the lot of the critic. Now imagine a life that is...

The Maldivian flag owes its origins to the plain red ensigns of the Arab trading ships which poured out of the Arabian Peninsula and East...

Our Dhivehi society is rich in good and bad omens, some have been discarded and forgotten while others have survived and can be heard...

Seeking spirit during dark times is a rebellious act. As we lose our connection to community, love, and the earth, our instinct forces us...

Marhaba, and welcome to the (terribly overdue) third edition of our folklore series. Created to help preserve an integral part of Dhivehi...

Our ancient past has always had a quality of ambiguity, a perpetual shroud hanging over it borne by our own disinterest in the history of...

Dhivehi bas is classified as an Indo-Aryan or Indic language, stemming from the branches of Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European....

François Pyrard de Laval, a French navigator, arrived in the Maldives in 1602 when his ship Corbin beached upon a reef in Baa Atoll....

Whether or not you're a fervent follower of politics, there’s no doubt that the past week has been a tumultuous firestorm for all of us....

Eid holidays have almost always brought a great sense of freedom for me, I think it does for all of us. Eid is our version of Christmas,...

Comprehensive sexual education in the Maldives, or lack thereof, is a subject often left undiscussed in the public sphere. In a country...

The story begins in a hut, on the northern mainland, shadowed by an untamed forest which lay beyond its wooden walls and thatched roof;...

When I got married at the age of 18, this is how I pictured my future to look like. I pictured a honeymoon on the beach, sipping on a...

The corpus of Maldivian folklore, or ‘fuloaku vaahaka’ as Dhivehin call it, is a boundless wonderland of mystical treasures, hidden...

feminism ˈfɛmɪnɪz(ə)m/ noun 1. the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes. I am a feminist. Does this...

Ancient Maldivian folklore is a vast body of magical fables, rife with the mighty triad of sorcery, mysticism and spirits most nefarious....