8 Qustions on Interlok

1. To all Indians who are against the novel : How many times YOU have looked down upon another Indian due to his birth 'origins'? How many times you have allowed your children to marry out of your village ancestry?

2. To the author of the novel : What is your pedigree in inter-racial harmony? How many books have you written with an Indian as the 'boss'? Why should we believe that you have no hidden agenda? Have you done a Datuk Lat or Ramli Ibrahim?

3. To the writers and teachers associations : How well are your members known as the beacon of inter-racial harmony?

4. Politicians who support the novel : Do you have any idea how discriminatory our teachers are today in the schools? Do you know that for the most part they are as polarised as the Young minds that they are forming?

5.Politicians who are against the novel (especially Indian ones) : When was the last time you spoke or did something that showed without doubt, that you are skin-blind? How much intellectual and political leadership have you provided to enable the Indians to feel good and safe in their own skin?

6. For the political elite who are as always 'taking no sides' until a clear winner emerges : Do you have any idea what the Indians, Chinese and Malays are calling each other in private? Do you have any idea how many times race factors in the conversation of our children in schools?

7. The Cabinet : Why should a book unheard of all these years; written by someone who has no apparent history of building inter-racial harmony be chosen for the purpose of educating our young and impressionable?

8. To all Malaysians : Where are we after 40 years?

Note : The will be 2 groups of Indians in this controversy. The 1st in which I belong are those who don't care. We have proven our merit and we have risen to the extent that our skin colour no longer speaks louder than our skills. What ever you write or say does not matter much because we serve this country better than you do. The 2nd group will be those who on a daily basis are victims of ill-speak and discrimination. Alas, the latter is in the majority. That is the reality of Malaysian Indians. Everything else is political garbage!