Shaik Zakeer Hussain
Ali Manikfan
Ali Manikfan is a marine researcher; he is also an ecologist, shipbuilder, agriculturist and a polyglot. Besides his native Divehi, he is proficient in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Arabic, Latin, French, Russian, German, Sinhalese, Farsi, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu and this is a man, who has no more than three years of formal schooling.
You can read more about him at: twocircles.net/2013oct14/ali_manikfan_polymath_minicoy.html
Ali Manikfan
Ali Manikfan is a marine researcher; he is also an ecologist, shipbuilder, agriculturist and a polyglot. Besides his native Divehi, he is proficient in English, Hindi, Malayalam, Arabic, Latin, French, Russian, German, Sinhalese, Farsi, Sanskrit, Tamil and Urdu and this is a man, who has no more than three years of formal schooling.
You can read more about him at: twocircles.net/2013oct14/ali_manikfan_polymath_minicoy.html