Most Recent Articles I Wrote for Haveeru Daily
FEATURE
Can
Maldives Have Its Own Fashion Labels?
"Why not?
Maldives can create its own fashions appropriate to the country’s hot
climate and culture," says a prominent Indian fashion school official.
"There is great
potential for Maldives to develop its own (fashion) labels," says Nealesh
Dalal, overseas director of India’s exclusively fashion-oriented JD Institute
of fashion Technology. Dalal’s
sentiments are echoed by some young people here.
FEATURE
Deconstructing
Britney
"Pop"
Culture Vs. "Intellectual Culture":
The Ongoing Debate
On one fine shiny day, I found my 13-year-old cousin in tears.
With some prodding, she told me the reason: somebody had called her ‘brainless’,
‘stupid’ and a ‘dumb nitwit.’ Why? Because she loved listening to Britney
Spears’ songs. Ooops! Should that be a problem? Certain sections of the society
seem to think so.
OPINION
If
Tomorrow Comes
What
if you woke up one day and found out that suddenly everything had changed?
[There's a comment by Mohamed Sobah from Malaysia on the MESSAGEBOARD about this article. Click here]
SPORTS
PERSONALITY FEATURE
Ali
Umar kicks off for the stars
He has changed styles many times. He was bald when he was first seen from
First Division football at Youth Sports Club. There was a time when he even
sported pencil-thin sideburns in the style of Italy’s Del Piero. Ali Umar
was 17 then and the subject of much speculation. But he never stepped a foot
back and boldly pursued the latest styles, not only in his looks, but in his
football career as well.
