June 2021 – Issue 2

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 – 

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– POETRY –

Alfred A. Yuson,

Poem for E.

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Aminur Rahman,

LIMERICK, 

PEERLESS, A TALE OF A HAPPY MAN 

and I AM NO KACH

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Elizabeth Marshall,

Ghazal 22

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Salleh Ben Joned,

Ria, A Hymn to My Sarong

and Haram Scarum

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David C.E. Tneh,

Drifting

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Vincent Heselwood,

Crutch and When We Speak

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Kiran Bhat,

2002, 2010, 2011, and 2018

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Abhay K.,

Man, When I Turned 69,

and Walt Whitman

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 – DRAMA –

Mahesh Dattani,

Untouchable

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 – NOVEL –

Arthur Foo,

Excerpt from ‘When Yesterday Calls’

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 – FICTION –

Andrew Sia,

The Crocodile and the Steel Pole

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Uthaya Sankar SB,

Mind Battles

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Pang Khee Teik,

Cream of the Crop

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Feroz Faisal Dawson,

Fireworks

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 – CREATIVE NONFICTION –

 

Christina Yin,

How to Convert a Hunter or 

How to Turn a Hunter into 

an Expert Birder and Conservationist

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Danton Remoto,

A Life of the Spirit

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 – SCHOLARLY ESSAY –

Ron J. Backus

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Paul GnanaSelvam Pakirnathan,

Masculinity in Crisis:

A Foray into the Dark World of 

Nonconsensual Pornography

and the Indian Community in Malaysia

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– INTERVIEW AND BOOK REVIEW –

Malachi Edwin Vethamani,

An Interview with Chuah Guat Eng

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Chuah Guat Eng,

Book Review of Feroz Faisal Dawson’s 

‘Ladder in the Water and Other Stories’ (2012)

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 – A SPECIAL FEATURE ON THE LATE SALLEH BEN JONED –

Wong Phui Nam,

Salleh Ben Joned:

A Retrospect of His Critical Writings

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Antares Maitreya,

A Posthumous Letter to SBJ

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Susan Philip,

Review of ‘The Amok of Mat Solo’ (2011)

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J. K. Asher,

My Che Guru

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Amir Muhammad,

Salleh’s Delightful Cameo

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Malachi Edwin Vethamani,

Obituary: Salleh Ben Joned (1941-2020)

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 – CONTRIBUTORS’ NOTES – 

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