No Bed of Roses (Cecil Rajendra, 2013) Malaysians can never get over the romanticism of the time when we, as a nation, were euphoric over being independent. The years after independence with their favourite Prime Minister at the helm will be forever remembered as the golden era of our young nation. People were accommodative and non judgmental in their outlook. At a time when the colonial masters' way of living and socializing was universally accepted, nobody would look at another with a 'holier than attitude'. Muslims consumed alcohol and no watchdog moral police stopped them. After the terrible trying times of the second World War and the economic prowess of their commodities at all time high, it was time to celebrate and did they celebrate. Against this backdrop emerged a rose which sparkled for a while but it could but not leave without leaving behind a legacy of a time not easily forgotten. This book is not a biography in the real sense. It does, however, enumerate...
It is all Mimesis