P Dev Anand Pillai

Education has been our bone of contention for ages

Education has been our bone of contention for ages

LETTER | We simply don't trust the government and the politicians in charge.

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Support by duress

Support by duress

The Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) now claims that the nation will be an extreme nation should the Chinese keep their votes close to their chest and favour the opposition instead in the coming general elections This seems like as though the Chinese are left with no other alternative but to support the ‘highly corrupt’ ruling coalition that has been at the helm since the British left.

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What is the whole fuss on the CM’s house about?

What is the whole fuss on the CM’s house about?

Everyone seems to be asking Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to go on leave, the question is why should he if he has done no wrong? Since when do we have a law which forces the willing seller of a property to sell one’s property at market price? Who determines the market price?

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We are just too lackadaisical

We are just too lackadaisical

There was a clear sign of frustration when Mohamad Sabu, the president of Parti Amanah Negara, threw the cordless microphone at the backdrop of the stage where he was invited to speak a few nights ago. A lot has been deciphered from that act but what we seem to see is that there is a sign of frustration on the part of the opposition and its coalition members.

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Are we going bust?

It looks like we don't seem to have the money to educate our scholars now! We keep bombarding them with new systems of examinations each and every time a new education minister takes the helm but when the children make it despite all the hurdles before them, we can't seem to have enough money to educate them. Where have our priorities gone?

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We can’t do without English

The Honourable Member of Parliament for Bandar Kuching was right in his quest to speak in English when his turn to debate the Budget for 2016 came.

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Is it about dignity or reality?

The Malays came out from near and far on Malaysia Day to send a message that they are there to ‘save their dignity’ as a race. They came holding all sorts of placards with distorted facts of history demanding that the Chinese Malaysians or the new term now being coined which is ‘DAP Chinese’ must be taught a lesson for having questioned the unquestionable, which is the supreme right of the Malays.

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Has the Malay race really been bastardised?

Finally it has come out from the mouth of their own revered leaders that their race will become a ‘bastardised’ race if the United National Malays Organisation (Umno) loses power in the next general election due in 2018.

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It ain’t that easy

There has been some news in the grapevines that two former foes have met and are planning to make some moves to oust the leader of the current administration in Putrajaya. It may sound and look simple in a democracy that functions well, where there are there separate organs of state which check and balance each other to ensure that there is a fair governance of the state that they administer. But in the case at hand, that is easier said than done!

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Stop being serfs and start being citizens

The threat of the climate of fear is slowing enveloping us, we can’t seem to talk openly any more ever since some revelations were made and many high-profile sackings and terminations of services were done at the stroke of a pen within the corridors of power in Putrajaya.

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Two sets of laws, based on who you are?

It is all out in the open now, and the foreign media who had exposed it are not amateurs, they know what they are getting into and they would have investigated thoroughly before breaking the news to the world. Now, what does it show on the country that is under scrutiny, our beloved land Malaysia? It is one country with two systems or standards. One for the common man and the other for the privileged and powerful classes of society.

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Are we the receiving dump of South-East Asia?

Many have criticised our federal government for turning back the Rohingyas and the Bangladeshis that came a-calling and landed on our Langkawi lsland on their rickety boats in the past two weeks, but little has been said about what impact in our society these refugees and economic illegal migrants have made over the past one to two decades.

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Accountability, have we heard of it?

I was just following the general election in the United Kingdom through the BBC channel and I couldn't imagine if we would ever reach that stage of maturity in mind and deed in this country of ours. Though a former British colony and having a identical system of governance, we have never heard of the word accountability!

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We reap what we sow

It may look a little odd but what we are witnessing today is a situation where predecessors seem to be regretting what they had helped create because that very creation has turned into a growth that we cannot seem to help stop.

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Poor Lawyer, Rich Lawyer

The 69th annual general meeting (AGM) of the Malaysian Bar has concluded and the turnout of members had been very encouraging.

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Cops seem very keen in policing the politicians

MP Nga Kor Ming may the next person to be hauled up by the police for typing something on the social media i.e. Facebook or Twitter that the inspector-general of police is keeping a close watch on. As all this happens, those who need to be policed are wandering free going about their daily acts of terror and theft in the name of gangland rivalry and ‘territories to be protected’.

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Can the common Malay boycott?

I believe that we ought to look back into our history to see how we lived without all this hypocrisy and shallow politics which seems to have blinded us today.

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2014 the Year of the Violent Horse

Another 365 days has come to an end but the year of the Horse in accordance to the Lunar Calender has been a violent one indeed. I would term it as the year of the Violent Horse.

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What a mess, MIC?

I note that the poor president of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC) has come under fire because of the recent mud and landslides in his constituency and further has been the first chief of the Indian ally of Umno to get a royal reprimand from the sultan of the state where his constituency is located.

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Don’t blame others for what you destroyed

We seem to be blaming Chinese education for the flaws of our National Education Policy which is simply changed at whim each and every time a politician feels it is right to do so.

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Justice for the Justices

Most were caught off guard when former Federal Court Judge Gopal Sri Ram, FCJ appeared as the lead counsel in opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s final appeal on the Sodomy II case in the Federal Court, and it immediately sent tongues wagging about whether ex-judges should be barred from the Bar and appearing in courts before their ex-colleagues.

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The state of mind of the post-1988 Gen Y jurists

We now seem to have many actively vociferous ex-jurists who seem to be in the thick of the state of our politics by making known their comments. I am a firm believer in freedom of speech, it may be a Western idea to some but the basic principle is to allow one to voice out his thoughts, it is the very basis of our civil society today whether we are Westerners or South-East Asians.

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Why monitor ethnic mix in the private sector?

The Malay Economic Action Council has urged the federal government to monitor the racial composition of the workforce in the private sector and the salaries that they earn so that wealth of these private sector enterprises can be better distributed amongst the workforce.

12y ago

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Should we focus on education of boys?

Women are indeed better educated than their male counterparts hands down, but have we ever thought why boys and men have become intellectually inferior? As we are so proud of our women and rally behind the successful ones, have we ever stopped to think why our boys and men have become lower in the educational and leadership strata?

12y ago

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