Towards healing the nation – still

FIVE years ago I gave a lecture titled “Healing the Malaysian Nation” to several different audiences. Asked coincidentally to deliver a lecture of the same name, I added “2.0” at the end.

My 2015 lecture began by describing the process of how the Malaysian nation came into being. The entities that eventually federated to make Malaysia each had their own history and institutions, their own lessons of statecraft and policymaking that eventually culminated to make Malaysia.