Where are the innovative thinkers who can look beyond what we want now and dream of how to live in the future?

Incidents that should have rung alarm bells about how Malaysian university students think about this country are being ignored.

MALAYSIANS often react strongly to news about how the country is doing according to international performance indices in all sorts of areas, from education and press freedom levels to how happy we are.

The columnist hopes his fellow Malaysians are not pursuing impossibilities and wishing for the wrong thing.

TWO recent examples of the concept of “freedom of speech” prompted this week’s column.

In today’s article, my wife and I - two Muslims born in Malaysia - would like to ask for forgiveness from all our Malaysian brethren, whether we know them or not, whether our paths have crossed or not.

The columnist bemoans what seems to be a striking return to divisive identity politics by a major component of the unity government.

The government can only do so much to uplift the bumiputra community. The rest is up to us, says the columnist, offering a path towards self-reliance.

The columnist offers ideas on how to improve and increase the use of Bahasa Malaysia in vernacular and private schools.

THERE’S a Malay saying that goes like this: “Seperti kera mendapat bunga”. Literally, it translates as “like a monkey getting a flower”.

THERE seems to be a lot of interest in the public domain about Malaysian academia after a social media-loving French professor questioned the scholarship of a paper submitted to a journal by an academician from a Malaysian public university.

FOR this nation of ours to progress, what do we need?