“When our traditions were first forced into the margins in the 1990s as a result of religious, cultural and identity politics, there was consternation among the public that expressed itself mainly in nostalgia and sentimentality. Younger people, however, search for these traditions with a greater sense of purpose because they are not acquainted with them. They suffer from a large cultural and historical hole in their souls, they seek greater meaning of themselves through these traditions, and they are getting increasingly weary of the inanities of cultural, religious and identity politics which have disposed them of all this knowledge,” he says.
--Eddin Khoo of Pusaka
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