An Ode to a City in Transition

By Miriam Devaprasana

September 2024 FEATURE
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I AM WALKING down Jalan Gurdwara towards Hin Bus Depot—and though I have walked this route many times this year, something about it feels different today. Perhaps it is the faces that peek out along the kaki lima; a familiar foreignness in the eyes of all those I walk past. It translates to the way they speak the national language—is it Bahasa Malaysia or Bahasa Melayu? Does it even matter? Regardless, there is a twirl at the tip of their...

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Miriam Devaprasana

is a dabbler of creative expressions and a budding researcher rooted in sensitivity, vulnerability, faith and human connection. Check out more of her writing on mdev16.wordpress.com.


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