Merdeka 2011 Special: Interview with Toh Puan Umasundari Sambanthan

We got some of nation's youth to speak to our nation's elders this Merdeka, to find out their take on the nation's past and also it's future.

University student Kenneth Ng chatted with Toh Puan Umasundari Sambanthan, wife of the late Tun V.T. Sambanthan, one of the founding fathers of Malaysia.

The lovely Toh Puan Uma candidly shares her eyewitness accounts of the consolidation of the MIC, the work put in to making Merdeka a reality, and those early years of building a new nation.

She also talks about her work with the NCWO and her life as an activist, social worker and leading figure of the cooperative movement in Malaysia.