The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday March 21st, 2022 – World Poetry Day
World Poetry Day takes place every year to promote the teaching of poetry, as well as the publishing, writing, and reading of this form of writing around the world. It was declared by UNESCO in 1999 and they stated that their purpose for creating this day was: “with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard”
How the state has destroyed Malay dignity – Malays are second-class citizens in their own country by Murray Hunter
When I was back in Setapak Garden during the Asian financial crisis, my bedroom window looked out onto a street where there was a Chinese coffee shop and a stall selling goreng pisang in the afternoons, nearby. The coffee shop was open until 4am every night. It was full of noisy beer drinkers, singing and occasionally smashing beer bottles on the street in the early hours of the morning. In the afternoons, a young Malay guy, who lost his job during the crisis, sold goreng pisang to feed his family. Then, one day the DBKL officers came in large numbers, confiscating the stall and fining the poor guy, in what could be best described as a humiliating scene for him.
Notwithstanding all this, the coffee shop continued to open unimpeded making a racket every night.
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“Sidewalk” #poem & #ArtInstallation by Amir Khatib
“I did not know then what
I know now. That I was a
pioneer of sorts embarking
on a new adventure to seek a”
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Ephemera #046 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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