A Delightful Stay At Rimbun Dahan: A Sidestep Rather Than A Retreat
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FOR WORKAHOLICS TO drop everything and go on a retreat is as crazy as asking a parent to stop worrying…
Highlighting The Chauvinism Paradox Through a History of Multiculturalism
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ONE OF THE deepest legacies of colonisation worldwide is the nation-state. Having learned that every inch on earth has…
How Long Have You Been Here? The Art of Migratory Pregrenations From Bengal
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NIGHT: At the Hu Yew Seah school, a mural featuring the polymath Rabindranath Tag-ore, who laid its foundation stone,…
TEOCHEW PUPPETRY: DO THE DEITIES APPROVE?
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THE FRONT OF the Hor Kai Kong Temple in Pulau Tikus filled with young students and neighbourhood worshippers, as a…
Mirrored Migration: Finding The Way Home
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COMING HOME SHOULD be easy, or so I thought. After four years of living in the UK, I imagined that…
Penang’s Parking Attendance Sheme: Smart Move In Difficult Times
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BEFORE COUPONS PROLIFERATED, only to be replaced by digital parking applications, parking attendants were ubiquitous across Penang’s public parking…
Weaving Patience: Basketry At St. Nicholas’ Home
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THE FIRST THING that greeted me was silence.
Not the uncomfortable kind; instead, it settled gently over the basketry workshop.…
Between Islands: Text, Translation And Contestation
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“MY MEMORY BEGINS, as always,” opens When Memory Dies, “with the rain.”
A. Sivanandan’s 1997 novel follows Ceylon’s…
LEARNING TO LEARN: WHY LITERATURE STILL BELONGS IN SCHOOL
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BEYOND BOOKS AND EXAMINATIONS
PFS (est. 1816) is Southeast Asia’s oldest English-medium school. Its heritage makes it a…
Making An “Investment of Hope”: An Interview With Amelié Skoda
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OPENING WITH AN enigmatic arrival in 1970s’ London, Amelié Skoda’s novel, Beth-nal Green, follows a young woman’s…
