by Kruz Aibrahms Not many of us can claim having more than ten homes while growing up yet I had sixteen by the age of thirty. This was due to my father’s vagrant duty stints. He was a cop with uncompromising loyalty to his master. In the sixties, transfers were the order of the day for policemen. We never… Continue reading Ain’t No Place to Call Home
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Tough Love
Photo by Dainis Graveris on Unsplash By V. Dharmalingam Tender love or tough love? Which is best? My name is Siva. In the 1940s, at the age of nine, I lived in Klang with three sisters, four older brothers and my parents. Father was a labourer. Caring for our large family was hard on my mother. But we,… Continue reading Tough Love
Chow Kit
by Patricia Nambiar This is a story from the 1940s as told to me by my brother-in-law, George. “I was in my early teens living with my Grandma in the Chow Kit area which in the 1940s was a mix of the then Malaya’s different races. Chow Kit was already a bustling commercial area. There… Continue reading Chow Kit
The Threads of Life
ryan-stone-OlxJVn9fxz4-unsplash by David C.E. Tneh My story begins in the summer of 2019 in New York City, months before Covid-19 hit the U.S. I was then a visiting fellow at NYU under the auspices of the U.S. State Department. Things were running well with the programme and, having never ventured this far geographically, very exciting… Continue reading The Threads of Life
Cerita Rakyat by Rakan Rukun Negara 