Entries from January 2007

January 30, 2007

Sons of the Soil.

I wrote this article on the indigenous people of Malaysia 2 years ago. Little did I know it would be published elsewhere today.
“Someone once said that it doesn’t matter who arrived in this land first; what matters is who controls the land thereafter. Today, the Native Indians hold little claim to the land called [...]

January 29, 2007

Stay off the main road.

I was once asked if I knew what was best for me. Well, there were days when I knew, and there were days when I didn’t.
It is not a simple question, really. I can ask myself this question for a hundred times in a day and get ninety nine different answers. And I wonder [...]