Maldives on the brink?
In God's kingdom, paradise is thought to be a place of peace and tranquillity, where eternal bliss prevails. Man on earth has often attempted to fashion something in its likeness. He has failed in his endeavour. When he imagined this likeness to the heavenly abode , only too soon did he realise that it is no more than hallucination. The situation becomes lethal when man's naked greediness takes the lead role in designing the arrangement to satiate his own ego suppressing and surpassing all others. Your editorial (august 19,2004) makes obvious that, that which is enchanting, heavenly and idyllic from a distance (though not physically ) is one hot hell of a place inside.
The high economic growth which allows for nearly US$ 2,000 per capita income with less than equal distribution among a quarter million population is a poor indicator of human development and overall progress of the country. Denial of human rights and curtailment of democratic social order is largely practised. Punitive measures have been announced to ensure total control on socio-political activities across the islands. The inhabitants are under continuous surveillance. What a man or a woman feels and thinks is predetermined. Death may occur on account of suffocation as there is no freedom of expression. The storm is brewing, and the whole atmosphere is on the threshold of social change.
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