PROPERTYMalaysiakini :: AZLY RAHMAN
- The rise of the 'tongkat ali society'
- Living by the tenets of pleasure.
- Must charity begin in the gambling den?
- Gambling creates chaos and turns families upside down.
- Evolving From Gertak to Gelak
We should go for laughter rather than threats.
- Gambling Malaysia away
- There is no good reason to legalise sports betting.
- The short, happy life of Aminulrasyid
- A short and happy life of a child turning fifteen. May his soul be blessed. Let us all pray for him and for our nation.
- Educational absurdity in Hulu Selangor
- How dare we use education, the only means for social and economic progress for all races to bribe voters.
- From Perkasa to pekasam
- Is pushing the doctrine of ketuanan Melayu embarrassing progressive Malays?
- Class divisions in access to healthcare
- The poor, who need it most, are the ones deprived.
- 'Malay' - a construction of an illusion?
- The question of what a Malay is and what it is not has become a most contentious issue in the discussions of nation-building circa post-Mahathir era.
- The Malay-Perkasa dilemma
- We are charting our future ruins based on the politics of desperados inspired by a decadent ideology no longer in synchrony with the real issues of the day.
- The weakness of Perkasa
- Is its creation necessary in an age of multiculturalism?
- Mandela-isation of Anwar?
- Anwar's trial is deifying, not degrading him.
- Learning from Howard Zinn's historicizing
- He focused on history's spotlight on the ugly side of white America's rise; here historians have been kind to their paymasters.
- Praying for peace is not enough!
- The Buddhist solution to a Christian-Muslim dilemma...
- Take not the road to Zimbabwe
- Major shifts in the political-economic and socio-cultural climate are inevitable when the condition is ripe.
- BTN and the price of indoctrination
- It’s a project to instil fear into the Malays – fear of their own shadow and fear of other races.
- On poverty, charity and semangat padi
- The Malays of the 'rice belt' states have traditionally been believers of 'the spirit of the padi' or 'semangat padi' - an element of animism residualised from the ancient Hindu-Buddhist tradition.
- What Permata Pintar can learn from Projek Baka
- It is exciting to learn that Malaysia is seeing another gifted and talented program being established. Projek Permata Pintar is yet another effort to cultivate good thinking skills amongst a selected group of students.
- Landslide victory or political immorality?
- Isa Samad's second coming signifies the coming of a...
- A new bangsa Melayu
- With all the bad rap Malays are getting, a radical rebranding is in order.
- The cultural logic of Najibo-nomics
- There are many variables that need to be taken into consideration when one thinks of a good case study.Let us be more sophisticated when naming names.
- From cow-headed to level-headed education
- We have to evolve, we simply have no choice.
- Dream of a sincere Merdeka
- Malaysia is approaching its 52nd birthday. But it is middle age characterised by bipolarism, schizophrenia and illusions of grandeur. How did we get to this stage? And how do we de-evolve?
- Rethinking the Malay problem
- "…the scholar is not he who gives the right answers, but he who asks the right questions…" Claude Levi-Strauss, French structural anthropologist.