street soccer academy...

street soccer kids of hithadhoo...

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fanditha hadhaa meehaa....

i asked what they were drawing on the ground...

"fanditha hadhaa meeheh", one of them quickly replied...
(i.e. a black magician)







meanwhile... Shahaa was more interested in wiping off her friends' drawings...

a time comes when silence is betrayal...

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that time has come for us...

- Martin Luther King Jr, click here to listen to excerpts of this famous speech






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hula hoop kid....

this clip was taken by me in Veymandoo island in 2007.... almost every school kid owned a hula hoop.... and were really really good at it too...

a failed society....

A society can be judged by how it treats its weak...

true, it is the parents' duty to take care of their kids.....

but what if they don't?? what if they won't??? or simply cannot??

dancing in the sky...

umbrella dilemma...

boys try to hold on to belt-less shorts and their umbrellas.... on a rainy day...

woops... shorts won't stay up... hey take him with you.......

waaat... i can't hear you....

busted... the camera...