Difficult conversations

NOV 5 — They were three and it was unnerving but you just have to, you know. It was a late Raya open house and the crowd had ebbed away except for hardcore Umno men and this ...

Hurt lessons

OCT 29 — I won’t forget. “Boys, everyone in this class can become prime minister except Praba.” You think at 16 you have figured out how to be, well, bullet-proof but then ...

Downsizing Polis Diraja

OCT 22 — Occam’s Razor dictates that the time has come to shrink the Royal Malaysian Police (Polis Diraja Malaysia). Yeah, yeah, it seemingly flies in the face of the IGP’s ...

We are Malaysia

OCT 15 — He ran to finish the race. Everyone else was packing up. The chatter quietened down when it dawned upon all of us close to dusk that the short pudgy bespectacled boy ...

Democracy drowning, spectators aplenty

OCT 8 — Today is the 18-month anniversary of March 8, 2008 and political pundits are inclined to analyses, prognoses and jokes. My question — as a point of examination — is ...