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Apr 28

Why Singapore murdered Nagaenthran

The optics of power and the myth of meritocracy. Singapore has long been considered, in Southeast Asia and beyond, to be a bastion of Liberal Values. Primarily, this narrative is in terms of economic prosperity and business friendliness: think of the Tory refrain of “Singapore-on-the-Thames”, the rallying image of a…

Singapore

8 min read

Jun 8, 2021

Worse than a Crime:

Malaysia’s Migrant Workers: Part 2 — In May of 2020, a few months into the first MCO, in a pique of depression and hopelessness, I wrote a piece arguing that Malaysia’s exploitative and unfair colonial economy never disappeared: that it only shifted from the backs of our coolie and indentured labour Malay, Chinese, and Indian ancestors…

Immigration

8 min read

Jun 16, 2020

Air Dicincang Berputus

A Story of Malaysia’s minorities. — From when I was a child until I was 17, I was scared of Malay people. I wish I could tell you that this was because of some traumatic incident that imprinted itself upon my psyche: maybe a scary security guard who magnified in Freudian proportions to roam the depths…

Malaysia

12 min read

May 27, 2020

Malaysia’s Colonial Forever

A story of Malaysia’s migrant workers. — Imagine that you are poor. You have always been poor. You father was poor, your grandfather was poor, and your family through the generations have always been poor. …

Malaysia

15 min read