Helen Ang

Kee Thuan Chye's political play 'The Big Purge' on Ops Lalang is a critique of state-initiated race supremacy and a polemic against racial polarisation.

It's no longer all quiet on the Indian front with the marginalised community now increasingly becoming more vocal while stepping up Hindu activism.

What happens after a Royal Commission? We're still waiting for the IPCMC to be effected following a Royal Commission's recommendations on the police.

If public opinion had been resigned to status quo as the Malaysian way, yesterday's Walk for Justice showed this acquiescence can no longer be taken for granted.

Batu Burok is a smell of something fisky pervading the mass media. What has stale 'fisk' got to do with credibility vs credulity over the Terengganu 'riot'?

Over the next weeks when government and opposition battle to shape the story of the Terengganu shooting, Malaysians should be on red alert for BN baloney.

Lina Joy could not get married and neither could this writer. At the 50 benchmark, Malaysia has become a one-way street of Malay supremacy for mixed marriages.

We must carve out the democratic space to accommodate expressions like 'Negarakuku' and otherness like atheism without people being instigated to run amok.

In the spirit of 50 years of nationhood, let's take a leaf, somewhat, from President JF Kennedy's famous speech and ask what your country has done to you.

Speculating on the motive behind the government's move to silence alternative media and bloggers who post on Islam is hardly rocket science.

Non-Muslims are wondering how far syariah, which covers wide-ranging Do's and Don'ts relating to the proper code of conduct for Muslims, will affect them.

When an unaccommodating country is on the road to national homogeneity, its minorities are faced with painfully adapting, assimilating or emigrating.

Writing critically in Malaysia, one needs to contemplate the Salman Rushdie Dilemma of pushing the envelope too far and to anticipate adverse responses.

They will seek meetings with the ruling parties to submit a list of sitting MPs who are not walking the talk.

When a Gerakan leader made some remarks about Perak mufti Harussani Zakaria, the PAS back-up squad charged into the field.

Our eardrums are assaulted by the platitudes of 'justice, mercy and compassion' but these ring hollow when lonely individuals are thrown into sea without a lifejacket.

Malaysians sell out by putting up with nonsense in trade-off for the privilege of earning a living and then buy into the inevitability of this specious barter.

Tian Chua's arrest bucking a pattern the public more usually associates with police inaction was more instructive of the force's selective show of power.

While the Gods of Fortune smile upon gaming operators, the Age of Reason seems to have eluded compulsive gamblers and other despairing souls.

Bloggers can help empower our youth who are the country's most important stakeholders to engage in the process of nation building.

Malik Imtiaz Sarwar speaks candidly on responsible blogging and his own blog Disquiet, on curbs in cyberspace and the blogger's role in nation building.