Living the poem

By Rosalind Chua

March 2010 PENANG PROFILE
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Malaysia’s best-known poet has been raising the hackles of the establishment for over four decades with his outspoken work. Politicians find Cecil Rajendra subversive, academics believe he is a “propagandist troublemaker”, and the legal fraternity scathingly refers to him as a “part-time” lawyer. Despite being pilloried by the authorities and suffering the indignity of having his passport impounded, Rajendra’s searing poetry is celebrated far beyond the nation’s shores by legions of global followers (Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former...

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