An absolute honour to meet Dr Sayeed Mohammed from Qatar in Kuala Lumpur to discuss the complexities of research in transition. I have admired him for his research on low carbon transition in Qatar and the Gulf. We met in a diasporic Pak Punjab over desi chai and mithai, the most apt of places for diasporic scholars from India.

The Arab Spring has many afterlives, as we can gauge from Damascus. The long shadow that created the refugee exodus to Europe and also Malaysia and engulfed a region out of relative prosperity to chaos.

May Shams heal and restore, in the year of wars from Kiev to Congo.

A masterclass on cultural politics of the 1990’in Malaysia and Kuala Lumpur by Eddin Sir. The best learning is in the art gallery rather than the staid classroom.

Beef Noodle Soup

Fantastic Webinar on India-Malaysia relations in the context of ASEAN and its presidency next year. This dialogue organised by Red Lantern Analytica in which the articulate Dr Yanitha Meena Louis and Prof Ayanjit Sen spoke was a masterclass in its true sense.

Old colonial charms at the Colonial Cafe, no decolonial sentiments here over earl grey and sandwiches.