A Malé bookshop that refuses to close
The oldest shop on Chaandhanee Magu has, at last, a succession plan — and it is not what anyone expected.
The oldest bookshop in Malé, which has occupied the same narrow frontage on Chaandhanee Magu since the second presidency of Ibrahim Nasir, announced this week that its next proprietor will be a cooperative of thirty regular customers rather than its founder's son.
The cooperative has raised enough capital to buy the freehold, and says its first act will be to keep the shop open one additional hour on Ramadan evenings.
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