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Shivani Sivagurunathan

S5E2 Shivani Sivagurunathan on Indian diaspora and contemplative pedagogy

Author and Educator

Release date: 20 November 2022

Welcome to Episode Two of Season Five of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Shivani Sivagurunathan is an author and educator, Head of School, Assistant Professor; Research Director; Director of Postgraduate Studies; Senior Tutor, Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia and has an interest in post-colonial literature and in particular literature surrounding the topics of Indian diaspora and contemplative pedagogy.

Shivani has been writing and publishing fiction and poetry for twenty years, and teaching for twelve years. Her first book, Wildlife on Coal Island, was published by UPM Press in 2011 and republished by HarperCollins India in 2012. The Indian writer Tabish Khair, described the book as ‘R.K. Narayan’s Malgudi, turned into an island, meets Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book in this highly readable collection of stories by a new and distinctive voice from Malaysia’.

In the podcast, Shivani gives some insight to growing up as a Sri Lankan Malaysian in a coastal town, Port Dickson.

Book Launch of Yalpanam (YouTube credit: University of Nottingham (Malaysia Campus)

Her second book, Yalpanam, is her first novel and it was published by Penguin Southeast Asia in September 2021.

Her short stories and poems have appeared in numerous international journals and magazines including Cha: An Asian Literary Magazine, Agenda, Construction Literary Magazine and many others.

Her poetry collection, Being Born, and her book of fiction, What Has Happened to Harry Pillai?: Two Novellas are now available and will be presented at the George Town Literary Festival on 25 November 2022.  

She currently teaches English Literature and creative writing at the University of Nottingham Malaysia and is working on her next novel.

Photos: supplied by the author.

Indian Diaspora & Contemplative Pedagogy

In this episode, Shivani speaks about:

  • Food and culture growing up as a Sri Lankan Malaysian in Port Dickson
  • Her maternal and paternal grandmothers
  • University days, race tokenism and a study on pedagogy
  • Her career as a teacher and educator
  • Launching of her latest works at the George Town Literary Festival

Visit www.shivanisivagurunathan.com to connect with her.

Back to Episode One

About the Listen by Heart Podcast

You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, an AFT Podcast production.

Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you’d like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you.

Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.

Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace.

Production Credits

An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com).
An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production.
Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com.
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Karina Robles Bahrin

S4 Karina Robles Bahrin [Full Podcast]

Author, Hotelier and the 2022 Epigram Book’s Fiction Prize Recipient

Release date: 31 August 2022

Welcome to Season Four of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Podcast host, Jasmine Low welcomes Karina Robles Bahrin, a Malaysian author and hotelier who has been selected as the 2022 Epigram Book’s Fiction Prize recipient. We offer our congratulations to Karina for winning the prize for her first novel – written in lockdown!

INTRO Welcome and thank you for joining me on the Listen by Heart Podcast. I’m your host, Jasmine Low. It began as Listen to your Heart – a project that began as a TEDx Talk in 2016 albeit a botched recording and my nervous energy that translated into giggles. It was unplanned and it was one of those strings of serendipitous events that started when my mum was diagnosed with a non-malignant brain tumour that needed to be removed. A fixer sort, that sent me on a tumble of a search for answers. Why did the tumour grow, what would she need to recover, does our body heal on its own, how do dietary nutrition or the lack of affect cell growth and the marvel of vibrational frequencies within us and surrounding us – as ethereal as this may sound! That has translated into this, Listen by Heart Podcast.

I’d like to share with you, a FAMOUS SPEECH that NELSON MANDELA NEVER GAVE… it’s titled Our Deepest Fear and for the records, my research shows that this passage was often attributed to Nelson Mandela but it was in fact a quote in a New York Times bestselling book titled ‘A Return To Love’ by Marianne Williamson published in 1992. Marianne is an American author, lecturer and co-founder of a volunteer food delivery program in Los Angeles and a Peace Alliance.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. 

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? 

Actually, who are you not to be? 

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. 

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. 

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Thanks to the author Marianne Williamson, for this quote that has made its way into the hearts of so many people.

Introducing to you Karina Robles Bahrin Wong (she drops the Wong in the public eye only for brevity). And in 1992, the same year that Marianne Williamson published, ‘A Return to Love’, Karina Robles Bahrin graduates from Stanford.

PJ to the Bay Area

  • Bachelors in International Relations, Class of 1992, Stanford University, California, USA
    • Recipient of Public Services Department of Malaysia scholarship
  • Stanford-In-Oxford Summer Programme, 1991
  • Assunta Secondary School, Class of 1986, Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia

Life in the fast lane

Public Relations

Karina built a career for over twenty years in the field of public relations.  Some of her career highlights include:

  • Media relations liaison for Asia tours of notable corporate figures including: Henry Kissinger, Colin Powell and Bill Gates
  • Head of Communications for Bursa Malaysia from 2004–2008, inclusive of the company’s IPO debut.
  • Media relations lead for the Force of Nature Concert 2005 in aid of tsunami victims. Star-studded line-up included Backstreet Boys, Black-Eyed Peas, Eric Benet, Jackie Chan, Ruth Sahanaya, Sheila Majid & Wyclef Jean
  • Lead media relations consultant for the inaugural Malaysian Idol competition

Boardrooms to bedrooms

Entrepreneurship

  • Co-owner and founder of La Pari-Pari, one of Langkawi’s best-known independent small hotels since 2012, which has won multiple awards from TripAdvisor, Agoda and Booking.com
  • Co-owner of fatCUPID, one of Langkawi’s top 2021 restaurants as ranked by Prestige Malaysia
  • Co-owner of Kebun Republik, Langkawi’s first indoor cold-room pesticide-free farm supplying temperate climate vegetables to local businesses on the island

Involvement in the Arts

  • Founder of the Suatukala community initiative (2015 to present) that has impacted over 1,000 workshop participants and audience. 
    • Past programmes include workshops by David Lok (Studio DL), Ruby Subramaniam (visual artist), KL Shakespeare Players, Elaine Foster & Sheena Baharudin (spoken word poets) and Lina Tan (Red Comms)
    • Public arts performance & exhibition showcases: Suatukala Showcase (2015) and Suatukala In The Park (2017)
    • Recipient of ArtsFAS/Yayasan Hasanah grant to produce a musical theatre production—Pulau Sri— which was staged on November 27, 2021 in Langkawi to an audience of over 100. The show was later screened on a Facebook live session with the show’s co-creators and producer.
    • 2021/2022 recipient of the CENDANA PRISMA grant for a Langkawi-wide story creation and theatre production competition to be launched in March 2022
  • Participant of Aunt Lute x POC United Prepping to Publish workshop with Sonora Jha, Professor of Journalist at Seattle University and author of How To Raise A Feminist Son (2021)
  • Winner of the Epigram Fiction Prize 2022 (the novel, The Accidental Malay published by Epigram is available at book stores in Malaysia from August 2022).
  • Published short stories:
    • “A Woman In Five Pieces”– Urban Odysseys: KL Stories (MPH Publishing) & KL Noir: Blue (Fixi Books)
    • “A Subtle Degree of Restraint”– title story (MPH Publishing)
    • “A Little Warm Death” & “The Proper Care of Princesses”–Malaysian Tales Retold & Remixed (ZI Publishing)

The Interview

My Identity, Who I am

From one big island to one of 99 in Langkawi, Kedah, we chat with Karina about where home is, her 10 years on the big island of Langkawi, her childhood and growing up in a mixed culture family.

The Women Who Came Before Me

We uncover Karina’s paternal and maternal history and learned about:
– Her mother and her mother’s mother; the Philippine side of the family.
– Her father’s mother; the Malay, Negeri Sembilan and Chinese side of the family.
– Their education and hers.

Leaving a Legacy

In the interview, we discuss her early career, memorable highlights of her corporate life and at 40, how she uprooted and moved to Langkawi to become a hotelier.

‘The Accidental Malay’, 11 years in its making, is her first fiction novel and it was written when the world and Langkawi was very much in lockdown.

How to take care of Princesses

Karina reads an 8-minute excerpt from her delightful short story, “How to take care of Princesses”, first published in Daphne Lee’s Malaysian Tales Retold & Remixed collection of short stories (ZI Publications).

Malaysian Tales (out of print)

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About the Listen by Heart Podcast

You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, an AFT Podcast production.

Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you’d like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you!

Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.

Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace, and our mental health in check.

Production Credits

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Dr. Chuah Guat Eng

S3E5 Dr. Chuah Guat Eng narrates excerpts from her Malaysian novel, Echoes of Silence

Release date: 3 March 2022

And here we are, the fifth and final episode. “It’s not about me,” reminds the author, Guat. Writing Echoes of Silence, she wanted to explore that emotion of how she, like many others felt lost at one time, as the children of colonialism, an establishment that left behind their orphaned children as Malaya gained its independence. The author indulges listeners in a very personal manner, where she narrates excerpts from her second Malaysian novel about the blossoming of a love affair that was inter-ethnic and inter-geographical between Ai Lian, and her Michael Templeton.

Dr. Chuah Guat Eng is a Malaysian novelist and professional writer who read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and she has a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). Guat Eng has two novels – Echoes of Silence published in 1994 in English, and translated recently into Italian and German. Her other novel, Days of Change came out in 2010. She also has three collections of short stories. They are Tales from the Baram River (2001), The Old House and Other Stories (2008), and Dream Stuff (2014). Some of her short stories have been translated into other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Slovene, and Spanish. She’s currently working on her third novel, and occasionally teaches subjects related to literature and creative writing at a local university.

Guat Eng has two novels – Echoes of Silence published in 1994 in English, and translated recently into Italian and German. Her other novel, Days of Change came out in 2010. She also has three collections of short stories. They are Tales from the Baram River (2001), The Old House and Other Stories (2008), and Dream Stuff (2014). Some of her short stories have been translated into other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Slovene, and Spanish. She’s currently working on her third novel, and occasionally teaches subjects related to literature and creative writing at a local university.

To purchase a digital PDF copy of Guat Eng’s books directly from the author, contact us.

Chuah Guat Eng’s official website: https://chuahguateng.weebly.com

Chuah Guat Eng’s blog.


About the Listen by Heart Podcast

You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, presenting Season Three of Listen by Heart: Voices of Women of the South China Sea with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng.

Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you’d like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you.

Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.

Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com).

An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production.

Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com.

Website made by WebPROjx Community.
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S3E4 Dr. Chuah Guat Eng on equal opportunity, and how there’s no such thing as being another’s equal

May the fourth conversation with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng guide you. A teacher, Mr. V. K. Arumugam was one such man who opened the windows of her mind. Guat shares her experience about being a woman in a man’s world, and her opinion on gender equality. She believes that everyone deserves equal opportunities yet we should never strive to be equal because we are not born equal. Not letting fate be the decider, Guat’s proposition is that we are given equal opportunities, make use of those opportunities and become what we are supposed to be, and how we are supposed to be is dictated by our genes, our education, background, language we speak and so on.

The invention of robots will make us more human, she says. She also discusses tall poppy syndrome amongst people and even countries like the United States and China. Even twins are not equal, how can we all strive for equality?

Background

Dr. Chuah Guat Eng is a Malaysian novelist and professional writer who read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and she has a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). Guat Eng has two novels – Echoes of Silence published in 1994 in English, and translated recently into Italian and German. Her other novel, Days of Change came out in 2010. She also has three collections of short stories. They are Tales from the Baram River (2001), The Old House and Other Stories (2008), and Dream Stuff (2014). Some of her short stories have been translated into other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Slovene, and Spanish. She’s currently working on her third novel, and occasionally teaches subjects related to literature and creative writing at a local university.

Official website: https://chuahguateng.weebly.com/


About the Listen by Heart Podcast

You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, presenting Season Three of Listen by Heart: Voices of Women of the South China Sea with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng.

Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you’d like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you.

Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.

Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com).

An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production.

Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com.

Website made by WebPROjx Community.

Official website: https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com.

#ListenbyHeart

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S3E3 Dr. Chuah Guat Eng on her PhD Thesis, From Conflict to Insight: A Zen-based Approach to Reading Fiction

In this third episode, Dr. Chuah Guat Eng details her PhD Thesis: A Zen Approach to Reading Fiction is a reading procedure originally proposed as her Masters thesis proposal submitted to the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). She cites an example of how many literary critics have approached the works by Joseph Conrad. In multi-ethnic Malaysia, Guat wanted to explore the use of a Buddhist inspired, Zen-based method to approach works by fiction authors, without imposing one’s own culture or values on the text. She poses the question on how one is able to gain deeper insights into an author’s text when the approach is Zen-based.

Background

Dr. Chuah Guat Eng is a Malaysian novelist and professional writer who read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and she has a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). Guat Eng has two novels – Echoes of Silence published in 1994 in English, and translated recently into Italian and German. Her other novel, Days of Change came out in 2010. She also has three collections of short stories. They are Tales from the Baram River (2001), The Old House and Other Stories (2008), and Dream Stuff (2014). Some of her short stories have been translated into other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Slovene, and Spanish. She’s currently working on her third novel, and occasionally teaches subjects related to literature and creative writing at a local university.

To purchase a digital PDF copy of Guat Eng’s books directly from the author, contact us.

Official website: https://chuahguateng.weebly.com/


About the Listen by Heart Podcast

You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, presenting Season Three of Listen by Heart: Voices of Women of the South China Sea with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng.

Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you’d like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you.

Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.

Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com).

An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production.

Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com.

Website made by WebPROjx Community.

Official website: https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com.

#ListenbyHeart

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S3E2 Dr. Chuah Guat Eng on finding her cultural identity

In this second episode, Chuah Guat Eng shares about competitiveness, her mother Wee Siew Lan and how one can tell from surnames of the Nanyang Chinese, if they are from Singapore or the northern states of Perlis, Kedah or Penang in Malaysia, the naming of Guat Eng and her sisters, finding her cultural identity inspired by an old school teacher, Mr. V. K. Arumugam, who passed her a copy of Lin YuTang’s “The Importance of Living”. An awakening had Guat realising what it meant to be Chinese, and that it wasn’t just about Pearl S. Buck. Guat also speaks about her time studying in Germany.

Background

Dr. Chuah Guat Eng is a Malaysian novelist and professional writer who read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and she has a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). Guat Eng has two novels – Echoes of Silence published in 1994 in English, and translated recently into Italian and German. Her other novel, Days of Change came out in 2010. She also has three collections of short stories. They are Tales from the Baram River (2001), The Old House and Other Stories (2008), and Dream Stuff (2014). Some of her short stories have been translated into other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Slovene, and Spanish. She’s currently working on her third novel, and occasionally teaches subjects related to literature and creative writing at a local university.

To purchase a digital PDF copy of Guat Eng’s books directly from the author, contact us.

Official website: https://chuahguateng.weebly.com/


About the Listen by Heart Podcast

You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, presenting Season Three of Listen by Heart: Voices of Women of the South China Sea with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng.

Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you’d like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you.

Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.

Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com).

An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production.

Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com.

Website made by WebPROjx Community.

Official website: https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com.

#ListenbyHeart

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S3E1 [INTRO] Dr. Chuah Guat Eng, Malaysian Novelist

Release date: 26 Feb 2022

Welcome to Season Three of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Podcast host Jasmine Low is joined by Dr. Chuah Guat Eng, a Malaysian novelist and professional writer. Her experience spans three fields of writing; commercial and corporate, academic and literary. She read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. In 2008, she received a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia) for her thesis, ‘From Conflict to Insight – A Zen-based Reading Procedure for the Analysis of Fiction’. From January 2011 to March 2013, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at University Putra Malaysia, focusing on Malaysian novels in English. Most of her professional life was spent in the corporate world as writer and as a creative communication consultant. She specialised in the development of strategies for advertising and promotion campaigns, corporate brand building programs and the synergising of corporate business aims.

Guat Eng has two novels – Echoes of Silence published in 1994 in English, and translated recently into Italian and German. Her other novel, Days of Change came out in 2010. She also has three collections of short stories. They are Tales from the Baram River (2001), The Old House and Other Stories (2008), and Dream Stuff (2014). Some of her short stories have been translated into other languages, including Malay, Chinese, Slovene, and Spanish. She’s currently working on her third novel, and occasionally teaches subjects related to literature and creative writing at a local university.

To purchase a digital PDF copy of Guat Eng’s books directly from the author, contact us.

In this episode

Born in 1943 in Rembau, Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia, Guat Eng grew up in Port Klang, formerly known as Port Swettenham. This episodes delves into Guat Eng’s early childhood, her growing up years, her father who was a train station master, being Peranakan and English-educated, the Anglo-Siam Treaty, British Malaya, cancel culture, her time studying in Germany, her advertising career and more. This is a part of a five-part episodic series.

Chuah Guat Eng’s official website: https://chuahguateng.weebly.com/

You may also visit her blog, or contact us for further information, or order copies of her books.


About the Listen by Heart Podcast

You have been listening to Jasmine Low’s Audio Journey experience, presenting Season Three of Listen by Heart: Voices of Women of the South China Sea with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng.

Subscribe to the podcast on your preferred platform and if you’d like to encourage us on, find out how you can support the production. Thank you.

Our purpose: Listen by Heart Podcast is an audio project that sets out to record and archive stories from women of the South China Sea, an area of much interest lately. As we document and record all of these stories, we will also be digitising and creating an online presence for women of Southeast Asian heritage and honouring the women who came before them.

Our Mission: Listen By Heart Podcast aims to serve as the Sentinels of the South China Sea, keeping our region at peace. Production Credits An open-source project created, narrated and produced by Jasmine H. Low (jasminelow.com).

An AsiaFitnessToday.com Podcast Production.

Supported by GoInternationalGroup.com.

Website made by WebPROjx Community.
#ListenbyHeart

Official website: https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com

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