COMMENT The 13.3 million Malaysian voters, including the 3.9 million first timers, will soon exercise their democratic right in the ‘mother of all elections' this Sunday. It is D-Day for the future of Malaysia.

Malaysians of various ethnic groups have traversed the twists and turns of nation building over the last five decades since Independence, and have now reached a critical crossroads: Which way to go? And what kind of future holds for Malaysia in the next 50 years?