FACE TO FACE: 89-year-old Uma Sambanthan remembers her husband and Tunku

Even 61 years after the momentous day when Malaya declared itself independent from British rule, Toh Puan Umasundari Sambanthan still gets emotional thinking about it.

She sat down with The Star for a recent interview to share her thoughts on her late husband Tun V.T. Sambanthan and the late ex-premier Tunku Abdul Rahman’s contributions to Malaysia.