British travel writer Tom Chesshyre has uncovered another side to paradise while exploring the tropical islands of the Maldives. For his new book, Gatecrashing Paradise – Misadventures in the Real Maldives, the author visited many of the Maldives’ inhabited islands, which until recently were off-limits to foreign tourists, encountering communities struggling to come to terms with the outside world and first-world problems such as drug use, divorce and religious fundamentalism. Read more: minivannews.com