The South East Asian Library in KL is getting together in less than a year.

Having has an association in the region since 2007 through study and work in three universities, the region is hardly understood in New Delhi which I seek to shed light upon. Life gets accounted in the books we have not read in our bookshelf!

I have been one of few Indian hacks who have written on Singaporean affairs and the intellectual attention is rather limited so far.

The Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair 2024.

A slice of the intellectual zeitgeist in the country. Happy to have seen MP Syed Saddiq and Minister Maszlee with an autographed copy of his cook.

Malaysia takes its role as major actor in the Islamic world very seriously.

The S in the ESG is Soul, where the social, labour, DEI, Human Resources and the Human Rights come together to accord a necessary, pre requisite framework for dignity, which in 2024 needs voluntary and legal standards to enforce that people get the basics.

The problem is that non sustainability folks run sustainability teams and consulting firms, and the trained passionate people in the sciences look for jobs.

Impact happens when people trained in the sciences and sustainability build things and not depend on the MBA types to do it.

Shukran Jazeelan Professor Shafeeq @shafeeq_valanchery for mentioning me in your seminal work on the Gulf.

As a fellow Gulf Kid and PhD researcher, this is the dignity and the kindness which means the world to me.