Vintage newspapers, books show the role of private collections in local history


Amid rising interest in vintage books and printed material, the 'Seeds Of Resistance' exhibition shows how private collections offer perspectives missing from official narratives. Photo: The Star/Muhamad Shahril Rosli

For veteran poet and author Raja Ahmad Aminullah, the printed word is never static. Books, magazines, and newspapers are not just objects to be archived but vessels of memory, debate, and dissent.

His pop-up exhibition, Seeds Of Resistance: Journey Towards Independence, now showing at the GMBB creative mall in Kuala Lumpur until Sept 29, is both a tribute to that belief and an act of cultural remembrance.

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