912 Batu Road, the Malaysian story that took 15 years to be born! September 30, 2021 – Posted in: In The News, Reviews

Intan Maizura Ahmad KamalSeptember 26, 2021 “WAS the book any good, Intan?” The question, fired ever so nervously by the elegant, bobbed-hair lady grimacing at me from my laptop screen, takes me by surprise. What kind of question is that? I mused silently before lobbing an excited smile in her direction. I mean, this is Viji Krishnamoorthy. She of The Lockdown Chronicles fame (an anthology of 19 Malaysian short stories that percolated from the Covid-19 lockdown published…

A meaningful journey with ‘912 Batu Road’ September 27, 2021 – Posted in: In The News

By Marina Emmanuel IT is often said that reading a good book is akin to making a journey. And what better time than now — during this Covid-19 pandemic — to be presented with an opportunity of travelling through time and space, via books. 912 Batu Road is a great Merdeka read, thanks to both fictional and true accounts of the country’s fight for freedom, the unity of her people, and the emergence of everyday heroes…

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12 May 2017: I, KKK ― The Autobiography of a Historian June 15, 2017 – Posted in: Newsletters

I have never strayed from the belief that the foundations of history lie in empirical evidence. I have spent a lifetime gathering facts, making sense of them, piecing them together, so that I may portray a true representation of the times I am writing about in all its complexity. ― Khoo Kay Kim Our featured book this week dispels the adage that historians have an aversion to penning their autobiographies. Indeed, the country’s most well-known…