KT Maran

Law needs to have teeth, proper food security planning for the future.

Laws alone not enough, digital literacy needs to become as basic as reading and writing.

Over 5 years, 465, including 12 children, died in our immigration detention centres.

We must change our 'peninsula-only' mindset.

Health is a shared responsibility, not just an individual issue.

Our kids can spend 11 years in school, yet still struggle with simple algebra.

Paper qualifications aside, we need critical thinking and adaptability, among others.

The killing of Kopi must awaken our conscience.

Govt must ask why people are renouncing citizenship, not just offer statistics.

They're an undeniable part of Tamil culture but risk reinforcing harmful stereotypes.

The punishment is both barbaric and humiliating, harming prisoners physically and mentally.

The public must be educated to detect shams who exploit polarisation.

Amnesty Int'l is reputable organisation that many countries, investors refer to.

This will reduce polarisation and promote awareness of various faiths. 

Undo what was done by error or default in the past. 

The movie's box office collection showcases their potential.

Stop racialising a crime and act on it. 

I was taken back by the recent news that there is a kindergarten in Bandar Sri Damansara which is allegedly preaching hatred and corrupting the minds of their children. Young minds are like a pouch, which will absorb anything which appeals to its senses from the immediate environment, sound, sight smell, etc.

March 21 marks the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; and the beginning of the official Week of Solidarity with the Peoples Struggling Against Racism and Racial Discrimination (March 21 to 27).

The ignorance of mankind to the power of unity and unity in diversity is the real cause for all the maladies in the world at the present time. Children from kindergarten level must be taught the power generated and radiated in unity in diversity. The lack of political will, by the government, to introduce curriculum on unity is the main reason. It has been said that “so powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth”.

We’ve all heard that “each man must inevitably reap what he sows”. The Bible says the same thing in Galatians 6:7: “For whatever a man is sowing, this he will also reap”. Karma, the central Buddhist teaching, tells us that each act we do, kind or unkind, eventually comes back to us.

A doctor who was on-call at the Alor Gajah Hospital was found dead in the toilet of the doctor’s room. It is learnt that the body of the 29-year-old doctor, who was from Petaling Jaya, was found at about 9am by hospital staff after they forced open the toilet door which was locked from the inside.