A publisher from the Gulf contacted me through social media leads for an essay & photo book contribution featuring the sharpest minds and creative voices in the Khaleej for a launch date later in the year. So grateful. Exploring the contemporary Desi Khaleeji archive a scribble at a time. Al Humdililah.

The meeting is the outcome, helps in building relationships. Ambassador Tommy Koh in conversation with Dean Kishore Mahbubani on the Asian Peace Program Podcast.

The job of an activist research organization is to create evidence for action and the archive.

One decade ago I was researching at NTU on a NRF project, and this day i was speaking at an AIESEC event on social innovation at NUS.

Life has petty much come full circle. Fortunately some fundamentals have remained the same.

Marvellous Scholarship should travel places. It was an honor to present @Rana_AlMutawa ‘s incredibly nuanced paper on spaces in Dubai, in my Global Cities Class as a part of my PhD Geography Coursework at the National University of Singapore. Do read her work! #desikhaleeji#Dxb

27k hits. A humble blog started in December 2010 in Singapore has turned full circle a decade later and 6 countries in between.

When people do give you a platform , amplify your own voice. 

Build platform with distinctive niche and gatekeepers will cite you and call you up. 

Have the josh.

#writing

Le thinnai events have become the mandatory seminars to attends as it unpacks academic jargon and places them in conversation with the everydayness of popular culture, where theory in a flat digital world can be generated (a novel way of theory from below, complicating what theory/ public engagement can be. I think the platform is showing the way as another brisk season is ending.

Salaam and Solidarity from Singapore !