With regard MGG Pillai's article, [#1] The Internal Security Act and Umno's insecurity [/#] (April 23), I'd like to check the line "It was Anwar's second brush with the ISA; he was detained for two years in 1973, amidst student demonstrations to protest the famine in Grik ." (Italics mine.)

It was not in Grik but the Baling district, 1974. And the issue was poverty. The demonstration and what had transpired was the manifestation of the conditions prevalent in the country then, and today.