Azly Rahman

The missing agenda in Malaysian education

The missing agenda in Malaysian education

COMMENT | Is the ‘new direction’ for education moving past education as indoctrination?

Ratify Icerd and de-tribalise Malaysia

Ratify Icerd and de-tribalise Malaysia

COMMENT | To be civilised means to wake up to the possibilities of humanism and not plunge into a world of more sophisticated racism.

People voted for a newer Malaysia, not a newer Umno

People voted for a newer Malaysia, not a newer Umno

COMMENT | There is an unhealthy development in the way party-politics is moving.

 

Jamal Khashoggi and Malaysian murder mysteries

Jamal Khashoggi and Malaysian murder mysteries

COMMENT | Malaysia must make a statement on the missing Saudi journalist.

Trishakti — the real Malaysian manifesto we need

Trishakti — the real Malaysian manifesto we need

COMMENT | We need a real manifesto and not a mere set of promises

Revisiting our 'rempitised' education system

Revisiting our 'rempitised' education system

COMMENT | Is our public education system failing if it is producing more and more disaffected youth?

What's new in Mahathir's UN speech?

What's new in Mahathir's UN speech?

COMMENT | He sang from the old hymn sheet, but it worked because the world has not changed.

At the UN, what do we tell the world?

At the UN, what do we tell the world?

COMMENT | We can’t rid child marriage, be kind to LGBT and minorities, so what will Dr M report?

The Butterfly Effect, ‘Merdeka!’ and M’sia today

The Butterfly Effect, ‘Merdeka!’ and M’sia today

COMMENT | Are we really celebrating ‘Merdeka’, or is the circus just beginning?

Time to give birth to radical thinkers in our varsities

Time to give birth to radical thinkers in our varsities

COMMENT | We need to train them to be good ethical revolutioners .

What Umno and all need to know about the Malays

What Umno and all need to know about the Malays

COMMENT | A laughing stock – the Malays are made to become.

After six decades, time to reconceptualise national identity

After six decades, time to reconceptualise national identity

COMMENT | Language is reality; words become flesh, inscriptions become institutions.

Memo to the new education minister, pt 2

Memo to the new education minister, pt 2

COMMENT | Schools of today need to be grown anew to keep pace with technological advances.

Memo to the new education minister, pt 1

Memo to the new education minister, pt 1

COMMENT | A good teacher is one who is skilled in the art and science of planting doubts in curious young minds.

Victory speech for all, by all

Victory speech for all, by all

COMMENT | No longer are we being objects of history, but we have become makers of history.

'Beauty is a Wound': A portrait of modern Indonesia

'Beauty is a Wound': A portrait of modern Indonesia

In Eka's novel, to be beautiful is to be cursed, as to be Indonesia is to be exploited and ravaged.

Make Malaysia sane again

Make Malaysia sane again

The government can ill afford to fan the fires of radicalism.

Must he play futsal in a sarong, then?

Must he play futsal in a sarong, then?

How not to be in contempt of K'tan's futsal court.

Their right to drink their beer

Their right to drink their beer

It is quite a simple matter, really.

A Merdeka message for the next prime minister

A Merdeka message for the next prime minister

Help all Malaysians, not just Malays or your own people.

Why hunt down the atheists?

Why hunt down the atheists?

Dialogue is good, hunting is not.

An ode to Malay, the fruitless language

An ode to Malay, the fruitless language

On the lack of fruits in our national language.

Moving M'sia past kleptocracy and Mahathirism

Moving M'sia past kleptocracy and Mahathirism

Considerations for a grand plan of change.

Diamonds are not forever, my lady

Diamonds are not forever, my lady

Clamouring for truth and justice.