In Tunku's time, the author's social activism and non-establishment views were not held against her.
Hailing from an old Nyonya-Baba family in Penang, Datuk P.G. Lim was born in 1918 in London and spent her early career as a lawyer and social activist, helping to establish trade unions. In 1964, she lost as a Labour Party candidate for the Sentul state seat. In 1970 she was invited to sit on the National Consultative Council chaired by the late Tun Abdul Razak. In 1971 she was appointed Malaysian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, and subsequently posted to Yugoslavia, Austria, Belgium and the EEC. She is presently a consultant to a legal firm.
