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PETALING JAYA: Brilliant, colourful, controversial are all words that would describe K. Sugumaran, an almost legendary journalist whose column "Sugu on Sunday" was among the best read in the country in the 1970s and 1980s.

First office: Members of a chingay team demonstrating their skill with the Star flag outside the newspaper’s rented building in Weld Quay in Penang where the tabloid was launched in 1971. I HAD just completed my Sixth Form and was waiting for my university application results. The year was 1980 and admission into one of the five public universities was uncertain. When I turned up for an interview for a cadet reporter position – the lowest ranking post – at The Star in Pitt Street (now Jal...