Singapore, my country : biography of M. Bala Subramanion / Nilanjana Sengupta.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sengupta, Nilanjana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Subramanion, M. Bala, 1917-.

Subramanion, M. Bala.

Singapore. Postal Services Department--Officials and employees--Biography.

Singapore.

Singapore. Postal Services Department.

Postmasters general--Singapore--Biography.

Postmasters general.

East Indians--Singapore--Biography.

East Indians.

Postal service--Singapore--History.

Postal service.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xix, 239 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : WS Professional, an imprint of World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2016]

Summary:

When after three decades of research Singapore could produce its own water, the little city-state was said to have lost its vulnerability. No longer would every policy have to bend at the knees for water survival. It was finally time to celebrate liberty! When did the same moment come in Bala's life? Was it when in mid-Atlantic he heard of his promotion as Controller of Posts? Or was it when he was appointed by the President as member of the Parliamentary Elections Minority Committee? Or was it at a moment of tragic loss when he realised he had nothing more to lose? Singapore, My Country tells M Bala Subramanion's story, a second generation Indian who lost his father to the Death Railway, witnessed Subhas Chandra Bose at the Padang and later emerged as not only a senior civil servant but the man behind multiple social interventions, living in a fast evolving Singapore. The histories of the man and his nation remain seamlessly intertwined, each peppered with equal doses of endeavour, ingenuity and a sheer will to survive! Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 My Neighbour is Another Language 1

Chapter 2 Nothing without Labour 32

Chapter 3 How You Wrestled Nippon-go Far into the Night 57

Chapter 4 Gave Him a Cause 94

Chapter 5 Restore this Sun to us and the Waiting Generations 141

Chapter 6 We Must Make a People 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789813141285

981314128X

9789813141292

9813141298

OCLC:

945353675