COMMENT | There was a time I could say confidently, let politicians say what they will and drive the wedges between the races repeatedly to further their insidious intentions, the basic bonds between all Malaysians will hold and we will come together again.

I am not so sure anymore. I despair that a lack of interaction among our young caused by a number of factors, chief of which is declining educational standards and parochialism in the government education system, may make that quite impossible.

Unless we...