COMMENT | All's not well in Muhyiddin's land

COMMENT | Let's make a trip to new Malaysia - 100 days after the tragic fall of Pakatan Harapan. We are passing through a huge, ugly arch emblazoned above with a bold, garish sign: Beware! You are entering Muhyiddin's land.

We are now in a land where the political contour is very much different from the one we knew before 2018. As we make our way slowly, the scenes flitting about us are mournful, gloomy, forbidding.

Look at life outdoors: people are moving about nervously as danger lurks at every corner and even in the air. They eye each other furtively with intense fear and suspicion, they dare not come near you, every sneeze and cough sends cold shivers down everybody's spine. The ubiquitous masks are a testament to the terrible times they are going through.

And what are all these barbed wires for? They are rolled around the neighbourhoods and not a soul can enter or leave. Living daily behind such barricades must be...