A day of public facing history in a seminar room outside the classroom but open to the public by the Counter Archive Project of the Malaysian Design Archive funded by the British Council. The event was supported by UM and NUS.

A Cultural Memory and Archive Workshop by Prof Jessica Rapson of KCL, followed by a Masterclass helmed by Prof Farid, whom I met first time in person.

A true intellectual tour de force of the day, the reason behind I still believe in a life of the mind.

A post which I wrote on my blog 6 years back has a generous comment today.

Writing The City: The Tour Bus As The Lens

One of the reasons why I keep writing

Thinking of Stone Town.

The Zanzibar discourse at ZMO Berlin

I grew up with the Al Kindi, Al Harthy, Al Rawhy and Al Barwani in Masqat. I worked under an Al Rawahi, and they are the sharpest one can be.

Batu Caves is the performance of heritage and the performance of the Hindu Faith. The Hindu Tamil diaspora comes together with Chinese Buddhists with migrant from Nepal, India and Bangladesh to mark their identity where the tourism gentrification is clear as a locus of income generation.

A clear favourite with North Indian Tourists as a Kartikeya Mandir though.

A continuum of the Indic Sacred Geography.

A site of Malaysian/Global Hinduism and the wider Diaspora.

Batu Caves.

June 2024.