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The day Mahathir spelt out his love for Hasmah (opens the original)
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Dr Mahathir Mohamad is leaning over the table, looking at the tiles. Around him are dinner, pastries, city lights and family. It is a recreation, but not just any family game. The scene has been staged by his grandchildren to recreate something their grandfather did for their grandmother, Dr Hasmah Mohamad Ali, in 1955. According to their son Mokhzani Mahathir, April 23 is the date his parents regard as the beginning of their love. It means so much to them that they have continued to celebrate i
Before Malaysia knew Mahathir and Hasmah (opens the original)
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They appeared together at official functions, travelled together and, through the decades, became almost inseparable in the public imagination. But there was another version of them, from a time when neither had any idea what lay ahead. They were two young medical students in Singapore, still learning each other’s habits, finding out what could annoy them and, more importantly, discovering that an argument did not have to be the end of anything. Hasmah once recalled that they fought during their
The music in Hasmah never quite left (opens the original)
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Writer Rahim Said recalled the scene: Hasmah arriving at the home of an old friend with an instrument she had first played as a girl. It was a quiet moment, but it carried a remarkable history. Hasmah had stopped playing at 16 to concentrate on her studies. The violin then disappeared from her life for about seven decades. This was not simply nostalgia. Hasmah found a teacher, began practising and worked at the instrument despite poor eyesight. She learnt some pieces by ear. The public first saw
The mother of Malaysia’s badminton family (opens the original)
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Malaysia had waited 25 years for the trophy. Now one doubles rubber stood between the country and the cup. Cheah Soon Kit and Soo Beng Kiang were on court under immense pressure against Indonesia’s Ricky Subagja and Rexy Mainaky. In the stands, Hasmah, in her red-and-white baju kurung, raised her hands in prayer. What the moment did not show was what she had done before they walked onto court. She knew Soon Kit and Beng Kiang were not seeing eye to eye. She told Soon Kit there was no better part
The man who saw what others could become (opens the original)
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During his screen test at Shaw Brothers’ Jalan Ampas studio in Singapore, the young actor was supposed to say, “Apa khabar Inche Bakar?” Instead, a nervous Ramlee blurted out: “Apa bakar Inche Khabar?” Lakshmanan Krishnan loved telling the story. He also loved recalling what he thought of Ramlee when they first met: an “ugly-looking fellow with lots of pockmarks”. Coming from most people, it might have sounded cruel. Coming from Krishnan, who watched Ramlee become one of the defining figures of
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