Lessons for rakyat's reps


? Flashback: The front page of The Star on Dec 18.

THE Star’s front page on Dec 18 read: “Nurul Izzah quits party posts”. I am rereading An Autobiography: The Story Of My Experiment With Truth by Mahatma Gandhi. After seeing the newspaper report, I continued with my book and coincidentally came upon the part about a co-worker of Gandhi’s who sounds remarkably like our own Puteri Parti Keadilan.

Writing on his trusted assistant Sonja Schlesin, Gandhi said: “Her sacrifice was great ... Her courage was equal to her sacrifice. She is one of the few women I have been privileged to come across, with a character as clear as crystal and courage that would shame a warrior ...

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