{"id":17395,"date":"2017-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2017\/01\/16\/my-burning-hill\/"},"modified":"2021-02-01T17:45:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T09:45:45","slug":"my-burning-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2017\/01\/16\/my-burning-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"My Burning Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17396\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17396\" style=\"width: 615px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-17396\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/My_Burning_Hill-615x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/My_Burning_Hill-615x1024.jpeg 615w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/My_Burning_Hill-180x300.jpeg 180w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/My_Burning_Hill-768x1280.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/My_Burning_Hill-922x1536.jpeg 922w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/My_Burning_Hill.jpeg 1229w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17396\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Ethos Books<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The political career of Dr. James Puthucheary was marked with quiet controversy. Apart from historic accounts of his defection from the People\u2019s Action Party to join Barisan Socialis, his detention during Operation Cold Store and subsequent exile, little is known of Dr. Puthucheary\u2019s persona. In My Burning Hill (2012), alum Dr. Rosaly Puthucheary (Dept of English Language and Literature) presents an autobiography of her elder brother in a 56 sectioned long poem. The poem effo<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">rtlessly weaves together her personal affections for her late brother and the political struggle in post-colonial Singapore. The result of her artistic endeavour provides a glimpse into Dr. James Puthucheary\u2019s life. Each stanza navigates and reflects upon the psyche and motivations of Dr. James Puthucheary, thus effectively expressing the humanity and sincerity of this exiled politician.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>Find this tribute to Dr. James Puthucheary here: <a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ethosbooks.com.sg%2Fproducts%2Fmy-burning-hil&amp;h=ATMYPY14NagRPH-KaDMy2eQj95WHHmr5L85m-NdAGQZwF_w2SoUhfL0kow-Nqq-04HibMER_rGiMDxbsvo8WdJhSqVusgwESCy50W8okXvECqzePFDm0tjo1AGCoWFCwmMI&amp;enc=AZN-5C_aug11m011mAvw7csoPKu3GgE0ySdh5lhHQ1ORTYHLoNei62AeqXDqTXLzmt6D4M92Sz5-zfht_J-ZA4fKbccfc-hrr_Ks_dqj2ecwuryfj6k7Wpa1WJd7o7E8n-yWBK1y_oA9G3vuG3tPZyGx8SXD5n7Cif3jhjp0E9Nu-dh9pFc5DdPWjHWO-4q0spR77Sk2VZMW0h4o20ssNFvd&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.ethosbooks.com.sg\/products\/my-burning-hil<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The political career of Dr. James Puthucheary was marked with quiet controversy. Apart from historic accounts of his defection from the People\u2019s Action Party to join Barisan Socialis, his detention during Operation Cold Store and subsequent exile, little is known of Dr. Puthucheary\u2019s persona. In My Burning Hill (2012), alum Dr. Rosaly Puthucheary (Dept of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17395"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28026,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17395\/revisions\/28026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}