Off With Your Head! Capital Punishment in the Maldives

I guess we had it coming. With a bunch of extremists acting as cheerleaders for the government waving imaginary pompoms and doing verbal cheer routines, what else can we expect? Home Minister Umar Naseer signed an order mandating Maldives Correctional Services to implement the death penalty couple of days ago. What's worse, he says it's unnecessary to wait for formulation of necessary regulations. According to this article in Minivan News, he says “We will not wait for laws to be drafted and passed. The law allows for implementation,...

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Everyday Sexism

It looks like I find things to rant about everywhere I look. Maybe it's just me...or maybe society's just doing things wrong, constantly. Get your act together people. So many rants in my head I can't even manage to sort them out and get them down on my blog. Ok so firstly I note, tomorrow is a big day. Its the primary elections for MDP to determine who gets party tickets to contest in the upcoming parliament elections. This is personally important to me because my husband is also contesting and putting up a tough fight in a tough constituency....

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Here there everywhere

Thank goodness for Twitter - now  I can just shoot of my rants whenever they pop in my head. Unfortunately a 140 characters is usually not enough. Now I'd say thank goodness for blogs, so I can elaborate on my Twitter rants. Ah our lives today - 24 hrs connected. To what though, I often wonder. To whom are we connected? We spend so much time analyzing random strangers and know more about our social media pals than we do of our families. In fact we are so busy scrutinizing our frenemies' facebook photos and Whatsapping about a common...

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Recipe: Kulhi Riha [Maldivian Spicy fish Curry]

As my first recipe I thought I'd post a traditional Maldivian kulhi riha (spicy fish curry) to kick things off ... Ingredients A fillet of tuna, cut into half inch long pieces two table spoons vegetable or olive oil half a large onion, chopped thinly two cloves garlic, chopped fine 4 one inch long pieces of pandan leaves 2 cloves 4 cardamom pods one stem of curry leaves 4 teaspoons chilli powder [or 2 tsp chilli powder and 2 tsp cayenne powder] 1 stick cinnamon 1 tsp cumin 1 tsp pepper 1 tsp turmeric, more to soak the fish 4 tablespoons 'githeyo...

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Lessons for 2014... or rather, things I should remind myself for peace of mind

Hello 2014! So with the start of a new year I renewed the list of resolutions, as we do. The usual suspects were rounded up of course. Fitness, clean eating, less procrastination, spending time with my loved ones, handling finances better, and so on and so forth - from the more obscure 'to follow dreams' to the more precise 'drink 1.5 litres of water a day'. One of them was also starting to blog again...on a shiny new blog. And more importantly, sticking with it. Before I venture out all shiny eyed and hopeful smiles in to this 'year of good things...

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