A trip down memory lane for former teacher

Service above self: Rajamoorthy (centre) when he was a teacher at the United Plantation Estate in Sungai Petani, Kedah, in the late 1950s.

GEORGE TOWN: Despite his frailty, M. Rajamoorthy can still vividly remember where he was on the eve of Aug 31, 1957.

The 88-year-old former Tamil school teacher in Langkawi said he and a few other teachers had to return to Alor Setar after being told to gather at Balai Besar and wait for the announcement by then-Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.