By Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed ChowdhurySINGAPORE, Aug 31 2020 (IPS) The Maldives is a picturesque country of merely 515,000 people located just beyond the southern tip of the South Asian land mass, in an idyllic Indian ocean setting. The nation is spread across 26 pretty atolls, comprising about 1192 islets, not all still inhabited. These are