LKY: Insights from a comrade turned foe


A recollection of Lee Kuan Yew and the man who fell from grace as the President of Singapore.

THE late Devan Nair Chengara Veetil, more commonly known as C.V. Devan Nair, was once a close comrade of the late Lee Kuan Yew who ended up as a disgraced, bitter foe.

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Opinion , M. Veera Pandiyan , columnist

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