One Malaysia, under God, bipolar essays on society, schooling, and salvation
The book is a smorgasbord of commentaries on the poetics and politics of cultural life in a nation that is struggling to transcend its racialized structure to forge a cohesive and harmonious future. The word 'smorgasbord' may give the impression that what is presented in this book is simpl...
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Petaling Jaya, Selangor New Jersey
Strategic Information and Research Development Centre World Wise Books
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- A meaningful Merdeka Day for me!
- An interstellar view of 'Malay-ness'
- Are we brewing another May 13, 1969?
- Teluk Intran and all that jazz
- The political economy of monarchy
- How we will be doomed as a nation
- 'Pendatang' and other manufactured crises
- What UMNO reps need to talk about
- From tom yum to nasi kandaq effect
- Major flood because of no hudud?
- Makin Mara's MRSM smarter
- Malaysia's endangered minds
- Beyond those super dodol in varsities
- What an 'A' in Malaysian English means
- This poem is not for Azmi Sharom
- Let them eat MUET
- Building school for all Malaysians?
- The 'baju kurung' vs 'baju kurung' debate
- 'Malay renaissance' at time of great flood?
- A lady and a Peugeot
- The child, the city, the curriculum
- Why Muslims, too, are rejecting hudud
- Od ismauns, Malauns, and Firauns
- Must the global khalifah be an Arab?
- Why must the guitar and piano be haram?
- Is Allah angry with Malaysia Airlines?
- Address terrorism, not flimsy sedition
- Lamenting the Bukit Bintang bombing
- A brother-sister syndrome and satanic verses
- In charb's horror, ia a defence needed?
- An Oktoberfest of ideas
- Reflections on Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy and the conceptualization of personacracy
- ODYSSEY II: a journey in three tablets