Aziff Azuddin

Decades-long Umno hegemony may have pigeonholed politically diverse Malays.

I like asking my non-Malay friends if they feel any connection to the monarch. And a great number of them don’t and are puzzled as to why the Malays do. To them, the monarch has long outlived the modern concept of nationhood that functions under the stead of democratic values and equality among its citizens. There is no place for a feudal order that separates man from one another.