Our Victorious Failure on The Road To Independence

From The Great Divorce to Victory

Illustration by www.harpercollins.com; modified by Author

PROLOGUE

The 1962 Battle for Merger with Malaya was also the war for my future led by Lee Kuan Yew, then the first Prime Minister of Singapore. The victory lasted a brief two years. Lee Kuan Yew died on 23 March 2015 at 91 years old. Within 10 years after our independence from Malaysia in…