Heart And Soul: A daughter remembers her dad’s love for language and newspapers


A daughter remembers her father’s quiet strength – in newspapers, words and acts of care. — Photo: This visual is human-created, AI-aided.

Something that reminds me of my father Rajentharan Subbiah even today? His love for newspapers.

Every morning, without fail, he would read The Star – except on Sundays. Sundays were for the New Sunday Times. I never asked why he switched papers, and now I wish I had. What did that change mean to him?

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