I finished Meena Kandasamy’s ‘When I Hit you or The Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife’, this time with minimal interruptions. It is not an easy read. But like I said, it is an important book.
Today turned out to be a long day. Longer than most that I can remember. It felt that way for a variety of reasons… The cell phone next to me hardly rang; not even the annoying intrusions of people selling insurance, villas, apartments, broadband, personal loans, vehicle loans, education loans, home rentals, pest control, cab…
‘I feel stupid’, I told Grace, an hour after the briefing for families that I attended in Kuala Lumpur on 30th July. The briefing was on the Full Report by the Safety Investigation team inquiring into the disappearance of MH370. It wasn’t even comprehensive. Much of what was shared was already known. Travelling from Chennai…
On this day, last year, the print edition of my book Journeying Through a Void: Life After MH370 was released. The book was Kanishka Gupta’s idea. I admire his unflinching faith, persistence, and steady support during the entire process leading up to the book’s publication and promotion. Very many have read the book and have…
It is a crazy long story in four lines: 1. New government in Malaysia, signals a new dawn, a departure from earlier ways of untruths, fear and intimidation, and raises hopes of a new order. 2. New Transport Minister Loke, with little prompting, makes ‘solving’ MH370 a priority, warming the hearts of affected families, long…
The latest programming on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, “60 minutes: The Situation Room” that aired on Sunday, the 13th May 2018, is a sham and a shame. As far as I could tell, there was nothing in the 40-odd minutes that was new evidence, or fresh thinking, analysis or insight. Without exception, every single thread…
Democracies are messy. They lose their way sometimes and become a sham. Powerful elites work their way directly through electoral processes or otherwise through bankrolling candidates in exchange for favours, and then retain a stranglehold on policy, law, institutions… and people. A hubristic belief in their prowess, popularity or infallibility is often their undoing. Najib…
The theme of ‘thought leadership’ has intrigued me for some time now. What piqued my curiosity was why there was such scarce thought leadership around me, when so many were tasked with it and many indeed were growing up the ladder of rewards presumably because they met agreed goals (that included thought leadership!).
It is now four years since we saw or heard from MH370. Perhaps because there is a search underway in the southern Indian Ocean, thanks to a deal between the Government of Malaysia and the American company, Ocean Infinity (OI), there appears to be less cause for anger and frustration at this moment amongst the…
Dear friends, It is now close to four years since MH370 was last seen or heard from. March 8th 2014. It seems a long time ago and yet feels like just yesterday. So much has happened since. And yet, so little is known about its fate. So many of us have lost a part of…