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Korali Staff
Jul 26, 20212 min read
The Flags of Our Past
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...
Korali Staff
Jun 10, 20212 min read
8 Bizarre Superstitions of the Maldives
Our Dhivehi society is rich in good and bad omens, some have been discarded and forgotten while others have survived and can be heard...
Korali Staff
May 3, 20215 min read
Stranger than Fiction Folk Tales: Huvadhoo
Marhaba, and welcome to the (terribly overdue) third edition of our folklore series. Created to help preserve an integral part of Dhivehi...
Korali Staff
Apr 6, 20213 min read
Mosques, Mandalas, and the Uncertainty of Our Roots
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...
Korali Staff
Sep 16, 20192 min read
The Evolution of Dhivehi Bas
Dhivehi bas is classified as an Indo-Aryan or Indic language, stemming from the branches of Proto-Indo-Iranian and Proto-Indo-European....
Korali Staff
Aug 10, 20192 min read
Pyrard de Laval's Eid in the Maldives
François Pyrard de Laval, a French navigator, arrived in the Maldives in 1602 when his ship Corbin beached upon a reef in Baa Atoll....
Naifa Zahir
Sep 9, 20185 min read
Eid Kulhivaru, and the Origins of Bodumas
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,...
Korali Staff
Jul 4, 20186 min read
The Jungle Boy & His Dream
The story begins in a hut, on the northern mainland, shadowed by an untamed forest which lay beyond its wooden walls and thatched roof;...
Korali Staff
Jun 9, 20185 min read
Stranger than Fiction Folk Tales: Addu
The corpus of Maldivian folklore, or ‘fuloaku vaahaka’ as Dhivehin call it, is a boundless wonderland of mystical treasures, hidden...
Korali Staff
Jun 2, 20185 min read
Stranger than Fiction Folk Tales: Fuvahmulah
Ancient Maldivian folklore is a vast body of magical fables, rife with the mighty triad of sorcery, mysticism and spirits most nefarious....
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