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Artist-poet Latiff on Colombo inspiration

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Mar 2, 2018, 12:53 am SGT
Olivia Ho In Paris

In 1964, the Malaysian modernist painter and poet Latiff Mohidin returned home from Europe aboard a French ocean liner.

In the port of Colombo, Sri Lanka, he saw more thin, hungry dock workers than he had ever seen in his life.

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