Who Belongs? Homeland, Motherland, Malaysia

By Dr Rahim Said Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor has offered a geography lesson, reminding us that…

Islamica: The Dream That Refused to Go Quiet

By Dr Rahim Said  The first time I heard from Sohail Nakhooda, it wasn’t Sohail at…

Malaysia’s Bargain Grand Prix

By Dr Rahim Said  Malaysia didn’t claw its way back into Formula One — it tripped…

Do You Remember When Playboy Was Passed Around Like Contraband? 

By Dr Rahim Said  There was a time when owning a copy of Playboy required the…

 When Britain Was Still “Great”

Image Illustration Created by Copilot By Dr Rahim Said  I was in Lower Six at Sultan…

The Man They Forgot to Credit, and the Grandson Who Never Did

Masjid Zahir, Alor Setar FB By Dr Rahim Said  There is a particular kind of Malaysian…

Yoda Best Dad Ever

Image Credit: Yoda FB By Dr Rahim Said, who muses about Father’s Day At precisely three…

Little Things, Big Love — and Why I Keep Coming Back to Bali

Image Credit: Copilot By Dr Rahim Said  Forty years. Four decades. That is not a marriage…

May in Bali: The Quiet Season Nobody Told You About

By Dr Rahim Said  I am sitting at RUKO — Rumah Kopi — my favourite café in Canggu,…

The Audacity of Jho Low

By Dr Rahim Said  Some fugitives hide in caves, some grow beards, and others may also…

A Guardian Angel Comes Calling to Klang in the 1950s

By Dr Rahim Said  In post‑Merdeka Malaysia, where dukuns roamed and superstition lingered, one schoolboy’s uncanny…

Authenticity’s Ruse

By Dr Rahim Said  There is a peculiar interrogation reserved for writers like us — those…

The 13th Floor Hideaway: Love & Compressors, an Amorous Relationship Leaves Man Hiding Underneath Air-Con Unit 

By Dr Rahim Said  There are moments in a nation’s moral life when one must pause…

Blocked at Hormuz: When Foreign Policy Needs a Laxative

By Dr Rahim Said  There are cartoons that make you chuckle, cartoons that make you think,…

Syawal: The Month Malaysia Turns into a Buffet Conveyor Belt

By Dr Rahim Said  Everyone talks about Hari Raya Aidilfitri open houses with the kind of…

From Forty-Five in 1965 to a Small Nation in 2025: The Mathematics of Memory and Mischief

By Dr Rahim Said There are moments in life when numbers stop behaving like numbers. Forty-five,…

Alphabet Soup, Anyone?

When Malaysia’s biggest stories read like a badly redacted exam paper By Dr Rahim Said  We grew up…

You’re Fired, Mr President (Says the Man with the Missiles)

A humorous illustration of being fired (Copilot) By Dr Rahim Said  If you had been watching…

A Daughter Will Bring Out Love You Never Knew You Had

By Dr Rahim Said  Her birth was easy. No 12 hours of labour like her older brother.…

No Father Could Love More

Image Credit: Copilot By Dr Rahim Said  You hear stories about fathers driving their children to…

When the Bombs Drop, Don’t Call Putrajaya — Call HR

Image Credit: Copilot By Dr Rahim Said  In the 1980s, when I was a consultant working…

Confessions of a Former Serial Romantic at 80

By Dr Rahim Said  Henry Miller once wrote that if you could keep falling in love…

The Seasonal Shelf Life of Faith: Christmas, CNY and Aidilfitri at a Damansara Heights Cafe 

By Dr Rahim Said  There it hung — a solitary ketupat on the wall — looking…

A Serious Look at Marriage and the Lost Art of Staying Put

By Dr Rahim Said  Socrates, who was married and therefore qualified to comment, is often paraphrased as…