KUALA LUMPUR: The Malay literary world is guilty of confining Malay literature to its own community instead of being multi-racial in its approach, Deputy Information Ministry Datuk Zainuddin Maidin said.
He said that in some ways, the Malays wanted Malay literature to belong to them alone, citing a Malay literary figure who had taken RTM to task for broadcasting an Aidilfitri poetry reading by an Indian.
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