Last month, The Star newspaper organised the Preserve Our Heritage initiative, inviting 55 artists to come together and paint a mural on a blank wall on Jalan Sultan, Kuala Lumpur. They were allowed to paint anything that they felt was relevant to the heritage of the area, or inspired by local culture. The result is [...]
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Don’t believe everything you read
Fellow blogger U-En Ng is a columnist for the New Sunday Times THE latest biennial survey of US attitudes to media by the Pew Research Centre confirms again what many of us have refused to admit: newspapers continue to decline while an increasing number of people cite television (specifically cable television and particularly Fox and [...]
Hudud debate: Raise your (non-Muslim) voice in protest
We are flummoxed. Flummoxed but not surprised. With all the debate that has been going on about hudud law in Malaysia, Muslim women and ‘non-experts’ who oppose the brutal ideal being circulated are told in no uncertain terms to shut up. Naturally, non-Muslims are at the bottom of this scrap heap. We’re a mixed bunch [...]
Obedient Wives Club sucks up more (column) inches
ONE of the prerequisites for working at Salt: books. We love books. We revere them. Heck, we even write and produce them. But when someone tries to rewrite the Karma Sutra, we have to object. Not because you shouldn’t rewrite a classic. Not because we have a rival publisher. The Obedient Wives Club, born and [...]
