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Parallels between Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa are the subject of two thematic shows

The world may have come a long way from depicting India as the land of snake-charmers, poverty and hippie havens, but an economically and geopolitically ascendant India still sits uneasily with the Wests mind-portrait. One such broad brushstroke has been sections of the foreign medias obsession with Indias democracy indicators sliding. This is rich coming from democracies that have changed leaderships faster than Tunbridge Wells turnstiles, or tackled their post-election results by storming thei...

The tropical ‘attitude’ that brings together two regions in rejection of European colonialism

National Gallery Singapore is proud to present Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America, a major exhibition that takes a comparative approach towards the complex histories of art across these two regions.

In the different fields of study in the arts and social sciences, there are some which are concerned with specific regions of the world. These are Asian Studies, Southeast Asian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Central Asian Studies and so on.

COMMENT | Confronting evil and the fool in society Modified2:55 am - COMMENT | Many people have asked me why my father, the late Syed Hussein Alatas, joined politics. Times were very different in the 1950s and early 1960s, both globally and in Malaysia. Syed Hussein Alatas studied the decolonising movements then erupting around the world. He was attracted to the ideas of the Indian, Indonesian, Latin American and African intellectual awakenings. These home-grown developments were ignited by ant...

My Story: Justice in the Wilderness, Tommy Thomas, barely, if at all, mentions race. And yet, no less of a figure than Anwar Ibrahim took the time to write an aureate critical book review – in which he (among a number of balanced comments) basically accuses Thomas of racism. I don’t think it is fruitful for me to try and debate whether or not Thomas is racist. I’m sure he would deny being so, as anyone would. Instead, I will use this as a case study to try and start a more honest, heart-t...