M Nadarajah

Punishment for pioneering?

COMMENT Cahayasuara Communication Centre is closed at a time when its strength should have been consolidated and its contribution expanded.

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Building a new 'We' for the nation

COMMENT Isn't 'bersih' after all the precondition to enter any sacred space, including our nation...together? Don't underestimate its power.

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Lessons from the Japanese triple disaster

COMMENT The time has come for a world better equipped in all senses to deal with disasters like this latest heartbreaking tragedy.

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A sustainability-oriented social charter for Malaysia

COMMENT We certainly need a lot of re-thinking, re-orientation, closure and rebuilding of institutions to do.

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Financial or multi-dimensional crisis? (Part 2)

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Financial or multi-dimensional crisis? (Part 1)

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One step forward, two backwards, or...?

Short-sighted mistakes committed by the opposition will be enlarged a thousand times by the BN-press to delegitimise the opposition and its electoral gains.

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New politics and the Indian Malaysian

A new political language needs to be framed the new young parliamentarians who will now speak for all of us.

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Our values and the coming polls

For those with faith in the system, the coming elections offer two orientations or pathways to our future: an active engagement with the 'politics of renewal' or a passive participation in 'sewage politics'.

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Another Merdeka? Economic extremism

We trumpeted the idea of a ‘caring society’ but our economy only produced a ‘high-risk society’, exposing a large section of our people to the vagaries and punishments meted out by a demand-driven market.

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Another Merdeka? - Return of the repressed

The repressed will keep coming back until we are mature and become wise enough as a people to address it by getting to the root of the problems we face.

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The flawed 'Malaysia Project'

We want the world to see us as an example of multicultural living but we have really perfected the art of being an ethnocracy, complete with ethnic silos and hegemonic motives.

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Future in the streets?

There is a deeply felt sense of injustice among the Indian/Tamil Malaysian community. It is growing and has reached the young.

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Thaipusam on sale

The important social values couched deep inside the rituals surrounding Thaipusam are lost in commercialisation.

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CSMU: A racial issue?

It is no point claiming that everything is being turned into a racial matter. Our society is built on a racial logic and critical areas of social life are based on racial decision-making processes no matter what we want to call them.

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Images from the World Social Forum

Sometimes referred to as the alternative World Economic Forum, this global meeting is attended by not the world's captains of industry, but the world's poor and powerless. M Nadarajah was there to record the event.

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Canny Ong and the KL20 vision

Much of the reflection over the senseless murder of Canny Ong last month has been on micro-security concerns. There is also a case to improve planning of cities in an era of urbanisation.

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The amoral beast Part II

Continuing from yesterday's revelations, more of the American Dream is bared, and it is not all about acquiring milk and honey, but chemical and biological weapons, and Third World sweat shops.

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The amoral beast Part I

Much has been said about the ugly American that becomes more visible as the war on Iraq progresses. And contrary to popular belief, his core values are not about 'life, individual liberty and democracy'.

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Police can only protect democracy by practising it

The police seem to have done it again. If you have been an observer of democracy in Malaysia, you must recall the role of the police in a number of critical situations in the last couple of years. That should have made you wonder if you are living in a democracy.

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Taxations role in improving labouring communitys lives — Pt 2

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How taxation can improve labouring communitys lives — Pt I

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Meritocracy, modes of governance and the making of a high-risk society

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Rebuilding the Indian Malaysian community

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