
JUNE 2021 – Volume 1, Issue 2 e-ISSN : 2773-5613
FOUNDING EDITOR : Malachi Edwin Vethamani
JOINT EDITOR : Danton Remoto
COPY EDITOR : Augustine Chay
Cover photograph by Melvin Terry Gumal
MMOJ is published by Ardent and Paramount Enterprise
– EDITORIAL –
– POETRY –
Alfred A. Yuson,
Poem for E.
Aminur Rahman,
LIMERICK,
PEERLESS, A TALE OF A HAPPY MAN
and I AM NO KACH
Elizabeth Marshall,
Ghazal 22
Salleh Ben Joned,
Ria, A Hymn to My Sarong
and Haram Scarum
David C.E. Tneh,
Drifting
Vincent Heselwood,
Crutch and When We Speak
Kiran Bhat,
2002, 2010, 2011, and 2018
Abhay K.,
Man, When I Turned 69,
and Walt Whitman
– DRAMA –
Mahesh Dattani,
Untouchable
– NOVEL –
Arthur Foo,
Excerpt from ‘When Yesterday Calls’
– FICTION –
Andrew Sia,
The Crocodile and the Steel Pole
Uthaya Sankar SB,
Mind Battles
Pang Khee Teik,
Cream of the Crop
Feroz Faisal Dawson,
Fireworks
– CREATIVE NONFICTION –
Christina Yin,
How to Convert a Hunter or
How to Turn a Hunter into
an Expert Birder and Conservationist
Danton Remoto,
A Life of the Spirit
– SCHOLARLY ESSAY –
Ron J. Backus
and
Paul GnanaSelvam Pakirnathan,
Masculinity in Crisis:
A Foray into the Dark World of
Nonconsensual Pornography
and the Indian Community in Malaysia
– INTERVIEW AND BOOK REVIEW –
Malachi Edwin Vethamani,
An Interview with Chuah Guat Eng
Chuah Guat Eng,
Book Review of Feroz Faisal Dawson’s
‘Ladder in the Water and Other Stories’ (2012)
– A SPECIAL FEATURE ON THE LATE SALLEH BEN JONED –
Wong Phui Nam,
Salleh Ben Joned:
A Retrospect of His Critical Writings
Antares Maitreya,
A Posthumous Letter to SBJ
Susan Philip,
Review of ‘The Amok of Mat Solo’ (2011)
J. K. Asher,
My Che Guru
Amir Muhammad,
Salleh’s Delightful Cameo
Malachi Edwin Vethamani,
Obituary: Salleh Ben Joned (1941-2020)