A wish for less politicking

A wish for less politicking by marina mahathir Sunday, 30 Dec 2018 I DOUBT if anyone has noticed but I’ve been away quite a bit in the last three months. “Away”, though, is a theoretical word in this age of social media. I may be physically absent, but it means very little when every morning, before I even have...

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On our own merit

On our own merit By Marina Mahathir Sunday, 2 Dec 2018 WHEN I was admitted to a local boarding school as a teenager many aeons ago, I had the misfortune of arriving at school late by two weeks. The misfortune was mine in several ways. One was that the reason for my delayed entry was an operation I needed to...

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It’s easy to do the right thing

It’s easy to do the right thingBy Marina MahathirWed, 28 Oct 2018THIS is the era of the new. As much as some people hate the idea of anything new, this was what the rakyat voted for last May. Even if it means we have a PM and some Cabinet ministers that aren’t so new.So let’s see what makes for a new Malaysia.Firstly,...

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Shaming the shamers

Shaming the shamersby Marina MahathirSunday, 30 Sep 2018WHEN I was a mere schoolgirl, there was a chant that everyone dreaded. If your skirt managed to get hiked up and your panties showed, or if you had a runny nose and no tissues to wipe it with, you ran the risk of the unsympathetic teasing of your classmates.“Shame,...

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Let’s stop the ‘hatewave’

Let’s stop the ‘hatewave’by Marina Mahathir Sunday, 26 Aug 2018 AROUND the world, climate change is causing heatwaves where people are unused to very warm weather. Back home, due to another type of climate change, we are experiencing a different kind of wave, which I call a hatewave. There are people who are...

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As reality starts to bite

Sunday, 29 Jul 2018 By Marina Mahathir THERE’S a quote I found somewhere that goes “What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be.” I don’t know who said that but it’s a wise observation on how our expectations often don’t match what actually happens in real life. So...

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Don’t take democracy for granted

Sunday, 24 Jun 2018 By Marina Mahathir WELL here we are in the New Malaysia. It’s still hard to believe that all this is true: that on May 9, we came out in great numbers to finally make the change we thought would never come. I still think of those depressing days just a few months ago when everything...

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