Category: Culture
Reaching
Best Little Bookshop in Kuala Lumpur
When you step into Riwayat book store you feel a sense of history, a literary welcome, immersion and belonging, as it were. It’s what bookshops do. That, anyway, was how I felt when I visited the place a few weeks ago. The shop is small, but Riwayat has old and new books, and especially books…
Chilipadi Loading
I don’t have birdseye chilies, so these fresh chillies will have to do. Conventional Recipe DIRECTIONS:
Classic Inn Kuala Lumpur is Closed for Good
I’m kinda sad that my favourite hotel in KL is closed “permanently”. I will miss staying at Classic Inn (52, Lorong 1/77a, Imbi, 55100 Kuala Lumpur). I will especially miss Baboo who went out of his way to help me in so many ways. Sometimes I had to ask him (beg him) to stop carrying…
Picture Gallery: Along the river in Melaka
Film Review: ROH
It has been almost 30 years since I last wrote a film review. Although I spend most of every day at my keyboard, my columns – mainly on global political economy, and on South African state and society – and the book I am working on, takes up most of my time. This film, ROH,…