Majid's
Pages
have
recently received an email to say the following:
"thanks
for the historical information on your site. it's quite difficult
to get in to your site from here as it is banned but i manage
to get in today for a little while."
The
writer omitted to say where she was writing from.
Most
of the material here is historical information- some of it
very rare. It is doubtful that this site would be banned or
blocked anywhere in the civilised world. There is unlikely
to be any Internet service provider or government barbaric
enough to ban knowledge.
Other
interesting recent feedback include:
Sewerage
disposal becomes an issue of national identity
according
to Ali Saleem (alysaleem@hotmail.com)
"........so
what? you are still a maldives born. So don't you have a duty
to for your native country?. Remember even though you now
enjoy modern convieniences in wherever you are. komevesh dhuvash
vareh gai kaley vesh handas buri ah valhu jahaigehn seelai
fain hunnaaney, while you were in Maldives Thats your beginning,
anyone who forget origin of him is a a person lost.
Well
write something useful and that could bring prosperity and
unity to maldivians never forgetting once you were a maldivian."
(spell checked for the benefit of readers,
with much apology to Mr Saleem)
It
appears that this is a vote of confidence because most of
what is in Majid's
Pages
is
about Majid's
"origin", some of it tracing back several centuries.
It is gratifying to know that one is not a "person lost".
The
Divehi language phrase above refers to the traditional toilet
arrangement in mainly Malé households in the Maldives.
It is a bit strange that the writer chose to refer to this
in this context. Such domestic arrangements would indeed make
a very interesting topic of research and
Majid's
Pages
will consider writing a full page on that at some stage. From
the terminology used, one would be inclined to think that
the writer does not share the same heritage as Majid's forebears
in the Maldives. Rather than referring to a handas buri,
Majid's family would have referred to a handas gekolhu
in an avahaara ganduvaru.
Mind
your language, old chap!
Smearing the dead
H.
Zidhan (zidhan@hotmail.com)
wrote the following to Majid's
Pages recently:
"...saabas
fulhu koilu therey kalo ge appa lha firihen kudhin ekogen
soo bohen hen mihaaraku kame nuvaane... "
Mr
Zidhan is alleging Majid's late father of homosexual behaviour.
Majid's father died some years ago, aged in his nineties.
Mr Zidhan seems to imply that such behaviour is the preserve
of the powerful. From the full text of the email it is obvious
that the author is taking exception to the secret photo of
the commanding general and officer corps of the Maldives
National Security Service (NSS) published recently in
Majid's
Pages.
Enquiries indicate that H Zidhan may be a sworn member
of the NSS. Perhaps we have trespassed jealously guarded territory.
