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Book Review: Can Asians Think? by Kishore Mahbubani Source:Brisbane 4EB Sri Lankan Newsletter – Dæhæna – September 2021 “Can Asians Think” is a soul searching and provocative collection of essays by the former Singaporean diplomat Kishore Mahbubani. Mahbubani is a Singaporean of Indian descent. His parents moved to Singapore when they were displaced from the Sindh province of British India during the “Partition of India”. Mahbubani was born in Singapore. Supported by a President’s Scholarship in 1967, he graduated from University of Singapore in 1971 with B.A in Philosophy and a M.A in Philosophy from Dalhousie University, USA. Written a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall (in November 1991) and the collapse of the Soviet Union in a world riding on western triumphalism and becoming replicas of liberal democracies, Can Asians Think poses views against the tide at the time. Mahbubani mentions of his personal experiences of ...