Today on Merdeka eve, I find myself privileged with a platform to articulate my thoughts on the 50 years whole shebang. I don't belong to any political party or any organisation to do with activism. So I'm speaking for me the accidental theorist.

Rap is the in-your-face argot of one young man's alienated world. I will use a gentler idiom to speak of shattered dreams and cowed populace. The words below are from one of my favourite songs 'Nawaitu', performed by 'nasyid' group Rabbani.