Cheeming Boey
The great philosopher George Santayana once said, “Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it.” A nation’s future is always bound by its history: we have to learn from our earlier successes, and ensure we do not repeat our past mistakes. How can we move forward if we forget what came before?
Many of the nominees in the non-fiction category of this year’s Popular-The Star Readers’ Choice Awards (RCA) pay tribute to great men and moments of the past. Margaret Shennan’s Our Man In Malaya, for example, invites us to remember the deeds of John Davis, a great hero of World War II, while Tim Donoghue’s (revised and updated) Full Biography: Karpal Singh: The Tiger Of Jelutong honours the late great lawyer and politician.
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