History & Heritage Immigration Lifestyle Celebrating Mustafa: 24-Hour Supermarket, and a Migrant’s Dream Come True Top image: Marisse Caine / RICE File Photo Forget the Hawker Centre. If you want to observe what some might call Singaporean integration—others inequality—visit Mustafa. Go at six on a Monday morning to see Mrs Nose Up-in-the-air, striding confidently to the daun kusum (aka laksa leaves) secti by Sudhir Vadaketh May 3, 2020
Growing Up With Star Wars, I Never Expected It to Mirror So Much of Today’s Inequalities Top image credit: Slashfilm.com For anybody who lives in a drastically unequal city, where every day the rich and the poor collide, our introduction to Rey of Jakku in the early scenes of Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015) can be humbling. We first see a masked prospector rappelli by Sudhir Vadaketh December 18, 2019
Is There Even A Point to Comparing Singapore to Hong Kong? Top image: The Independent UK All other images by the author unless otherwise stated. Just don’t wear black. In early October that was the pre-arrival instruction I received from friends enmeshed in that modern urban war zone, Hong Kong. “Don’t worry, you can wear black, nobody will t by Sudhir Vadaketh November 14, 2019