‘Tunku & The Star’ exhibition at Memorial Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra

YOU can take the man out of public service but you can’t take the public service out of the man. This had always been true for our first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj.

Upon retirement, he remarked that “My service needs no more to be remembered — I am a ‘has-been.’” Nobody had expected Tunku to contradict himself, but he did.