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Monday With The Editor

Reincarnate as a Singaporean?

Last evening, my wife’s uncle – in response to my wife’s remarks about not knowing where her deceased father was or what he was now doing in the afterlife – said that most likely her father was now reincarnated as someone here in Singapore.

He added that reincarnation as a Singaporean was something very good – [...]

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Monday With The Editor

Whither literature in our schools?

Another batch of literature students will be sitting for the subject at O level in early December 2002. This year’s batch of candidates is expected to be less than a quarter of the cohort of O-level students here.

Lately, there has been some interest in the dwindling number of literature students. A working group for the [...]