30 Nov 2011, Posted by Preeta Samarasan in Blog, 0 Comments Tagged exile, freedom of speech, Malaysia, Politics, race, racial politics, religion, superstition

In Malaysia

by Preeta Samarasan

I am writing from the country of my childhood and adolescence, the place that inspires everything I write, the place that invigorates and exhausts and devastates me like no other place on earth. I am trying to pin down — as I do on every visit — why I am so tired, apart from the obvious reasons (the heat, the jetlag, the obligation to see all the family and friends I only get to see once or twice a year). Everyone knows that the obvious reasons are never the real reasons.