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More than meets the eye!


Nothing seems like what we hear, read or see. We will never know what is real from fake. We can surely, learn from the experience of others. 

People are left in high esteem when they leave the building sooner than expected. On the other end, if they linger longer than their shelf-life, the legacy they leave behind is not entirely pleasant. The sorry state of the flailing body and declining function of the body is all that is remembered. If all else does not fail, the mental capacity eventually would, and the elder will go by many titles; screwball being one.

That brings us to the case above. Samy Vellu used to be the de facto head of Indian community in Malaysia. Passionately referred to as 'Uncle Sam', he was the darling of the Malaysian media of the 1990s and the butt of many of the political jokes of the day. His awkward pronunciations and his recurrent attributing many of his department's follies to 'act of God' still rings a bell. He had also sarcastically accused many Malaysians of being mentally deranged and need to be hospitalised.

Now it looks like the joke is on him. His son is trying to get an injunction to declare him of unsound mind. Or is it?

Oh, how the general public scorn at the ungrateful son who chose to chose to wash dirty linen in public. The dharma loving generation expresses contempt at the conduct of bringing family secrets to the public eye. All the caring and nurturing by the elders gave him the strength to bite the hand that fed him, they say.

The sceptics, however, would not buy such a story. They assert that it is all part of elaborate legal wrangling to offset certain unaccounted transactions to balance the books. There is a lot more to it than meets the eye.



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