new directions in singapore studies
Posted in 3 commemoration on Mar 25th, 2009
Daniel PS Goh
I wrote this piece for my now-defunct blog a year ago, almost to the day, on a sleepless night when time was suspended by the eternal flight of introspection. I was going through the week’s newspapers trying to write a regular column for another blog but got stopped in my tracks by the [...]
Posted in 3 commemoration on Feb 26th, 2009
Poh Soo Kai
Speech at the memorial gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar held at Dewan Canselor, University of Malaya on the 4th January 2009.
I came to know Rajakumar in 1951 when we were in our first year of our medical studies. He was quiet and studious, witty and humorous, sincere and kind. A very compassionate person, [...]
Posted in 3 commemoration on Feb 26th, 2009
Tan Jing Quee
M.K. Rajakumar is a genuine Malaysian hero, a socialist and a patriot. He belongs to that generation who had initiated the struggle for national independence from colonial rule. Quite appropriately perhaps, he was born and grew up in Malacca, the birthplace of modern Malaysia. He completed his secondary education in Malacca High School [...]
Posted in 3 commemoration on Feb 26th, 2009
Edgar Liao
Photographs by Isrizal
Memorial Gathering for Dr. M.K. Rajakumar in Singapore, 14 February 2009.
On a serene, warm Valentine’s Day, over fifty individuals gathered in the Manasseh Mayer Seminar Room in the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, NUS to commemorate Dr. M.K. Rajakumar (Rajkumar), who passed away on 22 November 2008, aged 76. A [...]
Posted in 3 commemoration on Feb 26th, 2009
Tan Jing Quee
Part 1 (written in November 1999)
Samad Ismail’s career spans three countries over half a century, the breadth and durability of which is stunning. The scope of his activities covers diverse fields as politics, journalism and literature. If it is politics that forms the core of these activities, then journalism has woven them into [...]
Posted in 2 archives & memory on Jan 10th, 2008
Tan Jing Quee
December 2001
The passing away of Usman Awang in November 2001 was in many ways, a watershed in the literary history of Malaysia and Singapore. He was perhaps one of the few literary giants who are known on both sides of the Causeway, read by a diverse section of the reading public. He is [...]
