The dying of a great light

SOMETIME in 2009, I received a call from an editor in Singapore’s The Business Times asking me to rush down to Kuantan to catch the tail-end of what would, on hindsight, be Lee Kuan Yew’s last visit to Malaysia.

Mr Lee had come for what he described as “a trip down memory lane”, an eight-day swing through the country that included, interestingly enough, all five states then controlled by the opposition.