Male’ — It’s Thursday night again — the night the capital’s elite slip into rooftop apartments and behind closed doors, where the music throbs, the pills trade hands, and secrets stay sealed. It’s the city’s unspoken ritual. But this Thursday carries a different weight. Because it’s been a week since a 21-year-old woman fell from the ninth floor of a quiet residential block — not the scene of the party, but the place where the night spiraled into darkness. The revelry had started elsewhere, in a building co-owned by the Transport Minister’s family. But it ended here, violently. She’s still … Continue reading Drugs, Denials, and the Ninth-Floor Fall: A Dark Night in Malé