{"id":645,"date":"2007-10-25T08:30:13","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/10\/25\/coffee-table-book-on-samy\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T08:30:13","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:30:13","slug":"coffee-table-book-on-samy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/indian\/2007\/10\/25\/coffee-table-book-on-samy\/","title":{"rendered":"Coffee table book on Samy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee table book on Samy<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2007\/10\/25\/nation\/19267219&amp;sec=nation\">source<\/a> <\/p>\n<p> A coffee table book, <i>Samy Vellu \u00e2\u20ac\u201c As We Know Him<\/i>, to be launched Thursday, will provide insight into the leader who has become almost a legend in the Malaysian Indian community, says <i>Tamil Nesan<\/i>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n The book contains 97 short stories by those close to the MIC president, compiled by Chitra Vasu.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> The daily said the 300-page book is not an autobiography but tells the story of Samy Vellu as seen through the eyes of those close to him, the daily said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n The book also features more than 300 photographs of Samy Vellu, mostly from private collections of contributors.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> Chitra said the book could be considered a rare documentation of a man who held the Malaysian Indian community spellbound through his deeds over the last three decades.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n The book is edited by M. Govind Nair and published by MPH Group Publishing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> MPH Group (M) Sdn Bhd general manager (corporate affairs) Donald Kee said that 10,000 copies of the book would be printed in English and Tamil.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coffee table book on Samy source A coffee table book, Samy Vellu \u00e2\u20ac\u201c As We Know Him, to be launched Thursday, will provide insight into the leader who has become almost a legend in the Malaysian Indian community, says Tamil Nesan.&nbsp; The book contains 97 short stories by those close to the MIC president, compiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,225],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-mic","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}