The Dude abides.

Family loses battle in ‘bodysnatching’ dispute

The line that best sums the story below comes from the Animal Farm: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. From MalaysiaKini:
A Hindu family today lost a court battle with Islamic authorities over the rights to the body of their relative who a religious syariah court declared to be Muslim.
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Long Walk to Freedom

I’ve finished reading Nelson Mandela’s autobiography: The Long Walk to Freedom. The book in itself was amazing. The burden he bore, to fight for freedom of all Africans (white or black) was extremely courageous and reminded me to some extent of the conversation of satyagraha in Orson Scott Card’s most excellent Shadow of the Hegemon:
“From [...]

Suggestions for a Better Malaysia

An excellent list of suggestions for a better Malaysia, some that caught my eye:

Fix the minimum Salary to RM950
Implement an objective based evaluation and appraisal system for the government sector.
All the existing reservation for Malays will remain with a change that these reservations are valid for ONLY the Malays, who’s [...]

The Hindraf Gathering, part deux

“The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” - John Gilmore
MalaysiaKini has up-ed the projected number of people who attended the gathering to 30,000.
Already we have two more Al-Jazeera reports up:
Hindraf Report:

Hindraft 11.35 am report:

The Use of Unjustified Police Force
Famous human rights lawyer and activist, Malik Imtiar Sarwarat, wrote on his blog:
From the [...]

The Hindraf Gathering

The Hindraf gathering was a success, judging by a MalaysiaKini report:
About 10,000 protesters demonstrated under the shadows of Kuala Lumpur’s iconic Twin Towers after their efforts to petition the British High Commission was thwarted by the police with tear gas and chemical-laced water cannon.

The protesters had attempted to gather outside the high commission early this [...]