Kuala Lumpur Stories
By unni_kumaran
Kuala Lumpur is my city. I have lived here most of my life but I am not sure what I feel about it. Friends visiting from outside the city have often asked where the heart of the city was. I am not sure I know if it has a heart. These stories are about my life in the city.
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KL 2
An essay I wrote in school, Kuala Lumpur Nocturne, more than 50 years ago, tried to describe the city in the night.
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Banish Retirement
Banish Retirement. By U K Menon You must take this thing about retirement that befalls you like some disease and throw it as far as you can fling it...
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When Money Comes Knocking
I always prided myself on being cautious—the kind of person too shrewd to ever fall for a scam. I knew all about scams. I was wrong. It started with...
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Clocks, Calendars and the Passing of Time
A story of a family drifting from cosmic time to clock time, and an old man who chooses his final hour by the Panchangam. There were clocks...
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Car Slaves
Sitting in the middle of the recent Hari Raya traffic jam, I remember an old cartoon showing a Martian peering into a telescope directed at Earth. He...
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