Is Dr M really a statesman?
COMMENT | I waited a day to pen these thoughts. Dr Mahathir Mohamad turned 100 on July 10, and I'm not the type to spoil a birthday bash.
Call it decency. The type mentioned in Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' as 'a sense of the fundamental decencies… parcelled out unequally at birth'.
And like all decent Malaysians, I often reflect on what we could have achieved as people and a country if our politics had taken a different turn.
Mahathir's tenure from 1981 to 2003 turned a multi-racial country into a Malay-supremacist state. It hasn't worked out well. How else can we explain his...
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