
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editorial: "Light"
Sharmani Patricia Gabriel, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Articles
“Unspoken Affection”: Articulating Friendship in Gladys Ng’s The Pursuit of a Happy Human Life
Carissa Foo, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
"Only Strange Flowers Have Come to Bloom": Identity Crisis in Northeast India through the Poetry of Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih
Neeraj Sankhyan, Dr. Y. S. Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, India
Suman Sigroha, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Mandi, India
Evolution of a Borrowed Genre in Malay Literature (1922-1941): The Case of Crime Fiction in Malaysia
Evgeniya S. Kukushkina, Moscow State University, Russia
Colonial Medicine and Cholera: Historicizing Victorian Medical Debates in J.G. Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur
Prashant Maurya and Nagendra Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, India
Interview
Ten Questions for Bernice Chauly
Carol Leon, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Poetry and Fiction
Galera Point
Keith Jardim
Fallen
Ngoi Hui Chien
Family Tree
Albatross
Esther Xueming Vincent
Mak Wok, Spice Mistress
P. Lim Pui Huen
Book Reviews
Kenneth Y.K. Chan, Chrita-Chrita Baba: A Collection of Short Stories in Baba Malay
David H.J. Neo, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
Anitha Devi Pillai and Puva Arumugam, From Kerala to Singapore: Voices from the Singapore Malayalee Community
Shaila Koshy
Gina Apostol, Insurrecto: A Novel and Dominic Sy, A Natural History of Empire: Stories
Christian Benitez, Ateneo de Manila University, the Philippines
Ho Sok Fong, Lake Like a Mirror: Stories
Keith Jardim, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia
Obituary
Salleh Ben Joned (1941-2020)
Malachi Edwin Vethamani, University of Nottingham Malaysia
Notes on Contributors
Cover image: Jackie Hinkson, "Swallows Morning", 2015.
We are very grateful to Jackie Hinkson for his permission to reproduce two of his watercolours in this issue.