COMMENT | When Kit Siang had a run-in with the headmaster

The following is an exclusive excerpt from Chapter 3 of ‘Lim Kit Siang: Malaysian First, Volume One: None But the Bold’, a new biography by Kee Thuan Chye.

Apart from starting the book club , Kit came to be in charge of the school library. In fact, his involvement in extra-curricular activities was quite extensive. At school level, he became chairman of the Science Society and vice-chairman of the Debating and Literary Society, and he was appointed deputy head prefect.

Michael [Ong, Kit’s fellow schoolmate] affirmed it in his reminiscences of those days: “This venture was unheard of in the school’s history.” And Kit’s purpose, he added, was to encourage students to express themselves and be heard “rather than merely be at the receiving end of everything dished out by the system”., and Kit was one of its four joint editors. It came out in that historic year of 1957, in November.

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