Marina Mahathir
She is a leader in many non-governmental organizations. She is a leader in the Malaysian AIDS Foundation. She is an active socio-political blogger. She also writes for The Star newspaper since 1989 in her bi-weekly column called Musings'. Some of her pieces in the column have been published in her books such as 50 Days: Rantings by MM, published in 1997 and Telling It Straight. The latter is a selection of her articles published in her column between 2003 and 2012.  It includes a special written introduction on the topics discussed in the book. Besides that, it contains two previously unpublished articles.