THE MEMOIRS OF MUSTAPHA HUSSAIN - Malaysia Today

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being. I am truly thankful to my father; otherwise, I would have grown
up to be a Malay completely blind to Malay politics.
I lost touch with these Malay editorials when I began a three-year
Malay apprenticeship at the School of Agriculture. It was only in 1933,
when I was 23, that these editorials re-entered my life, stoked my mind,
and fired my soul. This was purely accidental. As the School’s Hostel
Warden, I had one evening casually picked up the Malay dailies, Warta
Malaya, published in Singapore, and Majlis, published in Kuala Lumpur.
To this day, I am addicted to newspapers; I cannot miss them, even
for a day; I feel as if I have not eaten for a whole day if I miss it in the
morning. Newspapers are my halwa mental (mental delicacies).