Floating on a Malayan Breeze by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

Why do you write and why The Economist Group? (10:40)Īfter I graduated from university, I joined The Economist Group in Singapore, where I worked from 2006 – 13 (Economist Corporate Network and then Economist Insights).įor any wannabe writer, as you can imagine, this was sheer bliss. What led to your political awakening? (14:20) Some highlights:Īre you considering politics? (Min 50:05) And you can subscribe to this blog, Musings from Singapore, below, although as mentioned above, better to subscribe to Jom, where I’ll be doing most work henceforth. I also have a Telegram channel: SudhirTV.

You can also add me as a friend or subscribe to my Facebook updates. I am presently working on my third book, tentatively titled From Kerala to Shaolin ( see here).ĭo feel free to email me at or follow me on Twitter ( sudhirtv). The second, a collection of essays co-authored with Donald Low, is Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (see here). In terms of my book writing, the first one is Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore ( see here). Please sign up at jom.media to receive our free newsletter. From July 2022, all my energies will be spent on Jom, all my day-to-day writing will be done there. I live in Singapore with my wife and two cats, and am currently editor-in-chief at Jom, a new weekly digital magazine covering arts, culture, politics, business, technology and more in Singapore. I have lived here most of my life, aside from a six-year stint in the US from 1999 – 2005, when I spent four years on the West Coast completing my Bachelor’s degree, then two years on the East for my Master’s. I am an Indian Singaporean, born in the late 1970s at the Kandang Kerbau Hospital-Malay for “Cow Shed Hospital”.

Floating on a Malayan Breeze by Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh