Vinod Sekhar

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Tun Dr Siti Hasmah – a life and legacy of her own

Siti Hasmah deserves to be remembered not simply as the wife of one of Malaysia’s longest-serving Prime Ministers, but as an extraordinary Malaysian in her own...

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Negeri Sembilan: Enough: Return mandate to the people

Whatever legal arguments the MB now wishes to advance, there is plainly a constitutional crisis. Pretending otherwise does not resolve it.

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Najib and the RM50 million question

A country loses its moral compass when ordinary people are continually asked to make sacrifices for the powerful while the powerful are continually protected fr...

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Anwar Ibrahim and Malaysia – the politics of hope and fear

We should spend a little less time discussing who is going to pull whose chair away and a little more time asking what Malaysia intends to do with an extraordin...

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Lord Simon Woolley, Cambridge – and the danger of confusing what leadership is

If you are going to appoint someone to lead one of the foremost educational institutions in the world, today's Britain needs it to be a Simon Woolley.

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Merdeka: This is our Malaysia – and you will not take it from us

It is the ordinary Malaysians who work together, eat together, laugh together, build businesses together, study together and look after one another.

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Imran and Naquiyuddin - the princely nation builders of Negeri Sembilan

Malaysia became the first Asian country to host the Commonwealth Games. It was an enormous statement about what this relatively young nation could organise and...

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Prof. Jason Arday - When scrutiny becomes spectacle

The silent majority must find its voice

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Negeri Sembilan has spoken. Now, there must be humility to listen

When statements are perceived as arrogant, insensitive towards Malay institutions or dismissive of Malay anxieties, the damage travels far beyond the person mak...

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Play chess, not checkers: Why Negeri Sembilan matters

The liberal elite, whether intellectual or financial, should perhaps spend less time shouting over symbolic issues and more time focusing on the struggles of or...

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When institutions rewrite the rules, we should all be concerned

Over the past several years, the Court has demonstrated a willingness to investigate individuals who, until recently, many believed were politically untouchable...

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Justice must never ask permission: Karim Khan, the ICC and the world today

History has never been kind to those who believed that law should only apply when it is politically convenient.