KJ

In an earlier column I had postulated that the nation may be moving in the right direction after the last general election, but I had questioned whether we were moving at the right speed. I still believe that Najib Abdul Razak has tried his absolute best to move our ‘Titanic’ in the right direction, but […]

Is citizenship established for heaven or only on earth? This is an important question. Citizenship defines both our dignity and sense of destiny, it would seem. Let us consider WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as a case in point. He is a citizen of Australia, but appears to have done much of his research and work […]

Was there betrayal?   There are now two versions of interpretive truth regarding some facts already made clear in the royal commission of inquiry (RCI) on immigrants in Sabah. Of course, we will hear more, but as normal citizens we must process the ‘revealed truths’ as they appear but which have not been aggressively denied. […]

I read with some feeling of “disappointment” when Anti-Lynas campaigner Wong Tack first said that if he loses his cause to close down the Lamp plant, and of changing the politicians at the local governance end of the Gebeng site geography and constituency, that he would burn down the Lynas plant. I am very glad that he […]

Is it not the Malaysian problem today that we are not integrated with integrity? Some will argue that we are integrated enough, but the rest we have to tolerate. Yet others will argue that such integration is a journey and not a destination. I disagree with both, as they are both two ends of the […]

Politics is the application or the use of different processes for seeking or establishing a legal basis of distributing or deploying power and authority towards the governance of a nation. But, that is also what I call big P politics. There is also small p politics. Big P relates to nation-state governance, as a unit […]

Wikipedia defines an oath of office as: An oath or affirmation a person takes before undertaking the duties of an office, usually a position in government or within a religious body, although such oaths are sometimes required of officers of other organisations. Such oaths are often required by the laws of the state, religious body, or […]

I do not usually take a strong stand on any overtly partisan issue, unless I am driven by a specific conviction on truth matters related to the subject. Therefore, when some partisan groups have asked me to speak at fund-raising dinners which I attended, I usually refuse. But, recently I made one exception. Now, I […]

‘Tis the season for choices. Come our 13th general election, we will each, I mean Malaysians, and I suppose the backdoor cousins, have to make our choice of who should govern us for the next five years. Actually, we will make that choice only in a blinkered way. Why? In Malaysia we do not choose […]