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<\/td>\n<\/tr>\nThe pictorial book, which covers the life of MIC president and Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu from the age of 12, was authored by Chitra Vasu. <\/p>\n
It was Chitra’s admiration for Samy Vellu that inspired the UK-trained accountant to embark on her maiden book. <\/p>\n
\n Samy Vellu as we know him<\/i> com-prises interesting, inspiring and me-morable accounts by 97 people who are acquainted with the politician, some from as far back as 1946. <\/p>\n
“It is extremely important for us to document the great achievements of our past and present leaders like Datuk Seri Samy Vellu; the wealth of experience acquired by these great leaders is vital to the next generation of Malaysian leaders. <\/p>\n
“At MPH, we are fully committed to bringing you these great achievements through our books,” said MPH Group chief executive officer Datuk Ng Tien Chuan. <\/p>\n
\n Rais said the book was unique as it was on a personality who was a “living legend” and someone whom he often met. <\/p>\n
“We started as MPs together in 1974 and I have been here, gone out and returned to the government but Samy Vellu is still around as the country’s top leader of the Indian community. <\/p>\n
“The book will relate to us how Samy Vellu, as a boy from the estate, came to Kuala Lumpur and worked as waiter, cook, bus conductor and office boy and then became a char-tered architect from the UK before making a name for himself as one of the country’s great leaders,” he said in speech prior to launching the book. <\/p>\n
He added that people should not be discouraged by the book's 300- page extent as Samy Vellu's colourful life made interesting reading. <\/p>\n
Chitra, who presented a copy of the book to Samy Vellu, whom she had first met when he presented her a gift for achieving excellent results in the Standard Five examination in 1982, said: “This is my gift to Datuk Seri on your 71st birthday; I did not expect it to become such a huge event.” <\/p>\n
Chitra recalled that Samy Vellu had told the people who were at the prize-giving all those years ago, that “this girl will go very far in life”. <\/p>\n
She said she had adored the leader from a very young age and Samy Vellu's photograph hung alongside a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi on the wall of her house in Ipoh. <\/p>\n
“I’m grateful to Datuk Seri Samy Vellu for he has funded my education throughout all the years,” said the 36-year-old chief executive officer of MIC’s Maju Institute for Educa-tion (MIED). <\/p>\n
Chitra thanked Samy Vellu, all the 97 people who had contributed their accounts of the politician and her editorial team for her success. <\/p>\n
“This is only my first book and I could not have done it without the support of various people who willingly came forward to assist me in accomplishing my ambition,” she said. <\/p>\n
\n The book is available at MPH outlets at RM140 per copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An insight into a minister source By ELAN PERUMAL SAMY Vellu as we know him is the latest book published by the MPH Group. The 300-page coffee-table book was launched on Thursday by Cul-ture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Seri Rais Yatim. Let's see now: Rais (right) and Samy Vellu taking a look […]<\/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":[19,24,86,225],"class_list":["post-668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indian","tag-education","tag-mic","tag-mied","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668","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=668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}