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The Curious Case of the Singapore Lion

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I have always felt that there lies an unsolved riddle in the name Singapore (formerly Singapura; singa =…

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The Curious Case of the Singapore Lion

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I have always felt that there lies an unsolved riddle in the name Singapore (formerly Singapura; singa =…
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Sowers of Modernity

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Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles is a historical figure who stands among the likes of Captain Cook and Christopher…
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Surviving the Internet Age

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I remember the first day I learnt of it. I was a teenager, on the young side, and…
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"Like the prisoners incarcerated with the jaguar in Borges’ story, ‘The God’s Script’, who were trying to read, in a ray of light which fell only once a day, the meaning of being from the marking on the creature’s pelt, we spend our lives attempting to interpret through the word the readings we take in the societies, the world of which we are part. It is in this sense, this inextricable, ineffable participation, that writing is always and at once an exploration of self and of the world; of individual and collective being."
Happy 56th Birthday Singapore! Feel very fortunate to be one of the fifty-six well-wishers to Singapore in this year's edition of The Birthday Book. It is such inspiring and funky company to be among. Very humbled. Do check out all the profiles @thebirthdaycollective.
"A writer talks of things that everyone knows but does not know they know. To explore this knowledge, and to watch it grow, is a pleasurable thing; the reader is visiting a world at once familiar and miraculous. When a writer shuts himself up in a room for years on end to hone his craft – to create a world – if he uses his secret wounds as his starting point, he is, whether he knows it or not, putting a great faith in humanity. My confidence comes from the belief that all human beings resemble each other, that others carry wounds like mine – that they will therefore understand. All true literature rises from this childish, hopeful certainty that all people resemble each other."
"The events which occurred in France between 1789 and 1815, and their effects during the next decades, caused modern contemporaneous realism to develop first and most strongly there...."
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