The National Unity Consultative Council: Is It Any Good?
Daniel Teoh lists practical recommendations for the National Unity Consultative Council.
Daniel Teoh lists practical recommendations for the National Unity Consultative Council.
Helena Michael watches and reviews the controversial Tanda Putera and comes back with unexpected insight.
Vivegavalan V. Valu has hope for Malaysia in its quest for racial harmony and acceptance.
Unity and its place in today’s struggle for democracy.
The forth part of the critique focuses on the exploitation of post-political tsunami effects (so called ‘Collective Common Sense’), that gradually brings about the relevance of 1Malaysia as a notion to redefine the already defined but left unsettled, to re-evaluate the already evaluated but left unselected, to promise again the desired needs that are left unmet.
How will the collective common sense affect our social condition when they linger over the populace?
The social condition that gave rise to 1Malaysia lies in the chaotic and crisis-driven effect of post-political tsunami. This effect is taken for granted to sustain an assumption for activity or passivity, progress or regress. It is a self-contained stupefaction, the finality of politics.
This article attempts to explicate the social condition after the political tsunami (March 2008) and argues that 1Malaysia, other than being a concept that unites, is an omnipotent political strategy resulted from the post-political tsunami condition.
A provocative collection of videos from the Lead India campaign and some suggestions on how we can do our part as citizens to make democracy take root.
[UPDATED on 21 November 2010. Thank you Rainstorm for the correction.] Do Malaysians only work together when there is an anti-mega tower page to “like”?
Reflections on closet racism. “Beware of your thoughts, they become your words. Beware of your words, they become your actions. Beware of your actions, they become your habits. Beware of your habits, they become your character…”
What’s with this surge in racism and the obsession with race-based everything?!
(UPDATED with photos from the ground) A musing on the many firsts for Sibu that took place in the few weeks leading up to last Sunday’s by-election, that reflects a changed Malaysia.
The LoyarBurok Interview: That’s One Effing Good Video, Macha!
LoyarBurok caught up with Ezra Zaid, host of “That Effing Show” – home to internet-sensation video “I Am A Macha”. We asked him about how the video came to being; he shares with us the idea behind the music video and the reason behind the “macha” theme.
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