One country’s Merdeka is another’s damage control
By Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
October 2015 FEATURE
It takes two hands to clap; there is no shore unless there is sea; one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor – as the poet rightly claims.You get the point. There is always a bigger picture, and that bigger picture always changes the picture, as it were. More key players are always involved, more historical trends are always being played out, and more overlapping and contesting agendas are at play than meets the eye.It is like piecing together a puzzle;...
Dato' Dr. Ooi Kee Beng
is the Executive Director of Penang Institute. His latest book is Signals in the Noise: Notes on Penang, Malaysia and the World (Singapore: Faction Press) Homepage: wikibeng.com.
