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Goenawan Mohamad: Fighting graft with his pen

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Faith in Writing: Forty Years of Essays


Written by Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh, originally published in Straits Times

Nov 08, 2015

What is a man who loves his country to do when his homeland is plagued with corruption and oppression, when it carries the scars of a bloody past, and when - even now - it seems lumbering and adrift? Goenawan Mohamad - journalist, activist, poet - chose to write. In this hefty book of short essays - laden with both substance and style - he shows that one can love a country even when it lets one down.

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