Jokeen Cyril Fernandez was among thousands of migrants from India who arrived in then Malaya to seek their fortunes.
Armed only with a metal trunk in hand, a shirt on his back and a secondary school education, a man some friends would teasingly call “shorty” stepped off a ship anchored at Port Kelang in 1948.
Jokeen Cyril Fernandez
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