Category: Dr Azly Rahman

  “If we win this [Hulu Selangor] by-election, you can come to Kuala Lumpur the next day to look for me. I will write a personal letter to approve the money and it will be transferred to the school board’s account. If we lose, don’t have to come.??? –   Najib Abdul Razak, Prime Minister… Continue reading Sad day when politicians hold a school to ransom

  ‘Ideas move nations but indoctrinations remove intelligence’. According to government figures, only 7 percent of students in national schools are non-Malays. Parents fear sending their children from their past experience of the government indoctrinating young minds in the guise of an educational setting. Inciting racial sentiments in the classroom and boot camps (BTN, National… Continue reading Single stream schooling: The bad and ugly side

April 23, 2009 “All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.??? (Noam Chomsky) “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the… Continue reading Death of Malaysian media?

http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/04/memo-to-historians-question-all.html 20 April, 2009 Question all historical ‘facts’ “Man has no nature… what he has is history,??? writes the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gassett. But whose history must man learn? Whose construction of history must we craft as official knowledge? What is the conception of human nature must we hold in writing about history? There… Continue reading CPI columnist Dr Azly Rahman on Memo To Historians: Question all historical facts

http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/04/pink-floyd-meets-gamelan.html   Two Hills were won – Bukit Selambau and Bukit Gantang. I still remember when I was a child; the name “Bukit Gantang??? is associated with a “panglima??? or a warrior of fierce look and disposition equipped with the keris, Steroid-pumped up body and a tanjak (headgear). Hence Panglima Bukit Gantang. “Gantang??? is a… Continue reading Malaysia– After the Battle on Bonkers Hills

http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/ THE PERAK PLAGUE or, Should I too cross over for those millions of Ringgit?     That is a two million ringgit question. Or maybe fifty million these days. How much does one get for ‘crossing over’ these days? I do not know. But if there are millions of ringgit involved, this nation will continue… Continue reading Dr Azly Rahman’s Perak Plague

http://azlyrahman-illuminations.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-malaysia-be-monopolized-by-few.html There is a need for greed in this post-colonial British country. It is the need for greed at a high speed that is killing the rakyat/masses fast. From the need to monopolize plantations, public works companies, investment brokerages, private hospitals, television stations, media conglomerates, satellites beaming 100 channel televisions that turn kampong folks into… Continue reading Will Malaysia be monopolized by the few?