The Sara Saga

Manicasothy Saravanamuttu
Price RM40
2010, Areca Books
Hardcover, 15cm x 21.6cm,
312 pages,
58 black & white illustrations.
Includes index.
ISBN 978–967–5719–03–5

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Speech at book launch
10 July 2010, Penang

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Reviews & Press

The Star,
Thursday August 5, 2010
'' More books on heritage city to meet growing interest''
By Christina Chin

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The Sara Saga

Contents

List of Illustrations vi
Acknowledgements viii
Acknowledgements to the Original Edition xi
Foreword by Malcolm MacDonald xiii
Foreword to New Edition by Manicam Saravanamuttu and
Johan Saravanamuttu vx
Preface xix

I Early Days 1
II At Oxford 17
III London Interlude 33
IV "The Old Lady of Baillie Street" 45
V Progress in Penang 55
VI Penang Personalities 79
VII War Breaks Out 99
VIII In Japanese Prison 119
IX Under Japanese Rule 135
X The Liberation 151
XI As Ceylon Commissioner 169
XII The Midnight Sun 185
XIII The Bandung Story 197
XIV Malayan Independence 213
XV Singapore's Troubles 231
XVI Ceylon's Full Cycle 247
XVII Three Score Years and Ten 253
Index 274

Sara (second from left) in a group photograph with Tan Siew Sin (third from right), who became the Finance Minister of independent Malaya.

Tan Sri C.M. Hashim (left) and Puan Hashim with the author and F.g. Hammett, President of the Penang Municipal Council, at the British Malayan Association dinner in London in 1954.

Sara's speech has Malcolm MacDonald and wife, E.E.C. Thuraisingham and wife and others at the VIP table in stitches, at an event probably in Kuala Lumpur, ca. late 1940s.