Musings
Speak up and be counted
Sometimes it takes an extreme act to wake us up to our rights and guard against extremism.
Need for solidarity against injustice
All Malaysians should awaken to defend the rights of others to express themselves.
Missteps to a civil society
Some university students seeking to be the moral guardians of society want to stop others from having fun at concerts, but fail to take up the bigger causes.
Unity an ongoing Malaysian project
Having stayed together with only relatively minor spats over the past 52 years, we need to ask ourselves if we are really as divided as some politicians will have us believe.
It’s time for us to chill
After months of heightened emotions, a group of individuals decided to do something to show that hate is an emotion that is alien to the ordinary Malaysian.
Merit comes from making right choices
Living the faith is not just about avoiding what is prohibited, but more so about doing the right things where morals and ethics are concerned.
Following Jakarta in tackling AIDS
The openness and inclusiveness of the Indonesian local organising committee have been impressive.
Before acting, take a deep breath
While the middle of Kuala Lumpur was all eye-stinging chaos last Saturday, the rest of the city functioned as normal. People went out lunching and shopping as they would.
Two sides of the same coin
When human rights is sacrificed supposedly on the altar of security, nobody feels safe anymore, not even the enforcers.
Injustice through the tar brush
To stereotype through one’s shared identity does not do justice to every individual; we all live with multiple identities.
Veiled view of equal rights
US President Barack Obama showed that he was mindful of who he was talking to. If only people did the same back home in our neck of the woods.
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