How Different the Kelantan of My Youth Was
By Izzuddin Ramli
October 2019 FEATURE
Our lives revolve around locating ourselves within the unfamiliar, and coming to terms with all the differences that we chance upon in our surroundings. There are seemingly only two options for us to choose from: to throw ourselves into the herd and become one with the others; or to step out, acknowledge and embrace the dissimilarities.As a young boy living in 1990s Labok, a small Malay village – said to be named after an Orang Asli’s Tok Batin – just...
Izzuddin Ramli
is a Kelantanese analyst at Penang Institute. He is a writer who seeks refuge in Penang, and agrees with Rumi that the Earth is not our home, we are just passing through.
