History is etched in the land, to conflicts far away and chapters which needed to be remembered.

The Death Railway monument at Ipoh Railway Station is poignant as thousands perished as fodder for colonial infrastructure.

I travel for my love of Indian Ocean Tarikh, as culture is downstream of history. The residues of the post colony still ember and simmer contemporary identity politics in the everyday. Think Bangladesh, Fiji, Guyana, Mauritius, South Africa in addition to SE Asia where contestations occur in sharp and subtle ways.