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Saturday, 14 September 2013

CONTRASTING THE GOOD AND THE BAD IN MALAYSIA



Photo: QUOTE A Contrast of Two Well-Known Personalities in the Arts. "..Pak Samad is a distinguished poet and novelist. He received the Sasterawan Negara award in 1986, and his novel Salina is a canonical work of Malaysian literature. His dignity, his art and his moral courage in response increased public sympathy for him and enhanced his standing within the country. Pak Samad's choice of words resonate in a complex way that exposes the hypocrisy and racism that energize this threat against non-Malay Malaysians. He is perhaps on his way to becoming a symbolic hero in the vein of VACLAY HAVEL and PRAMOEDYA ANATHA TOER Shuhaimi Baba, a film director was embroiled in a controversy over her film Tanda Putera and accused of being a government propagandist and a sower of racial discord. Shuhaimi scored an own goal when she injudiciously claimed that the film was based on fact and had been well researched. She has found herself back-pedalling on several fronts..." -Kathy Rowland http://tinyurl.com/mr23bmy
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