Kranji; The Commonwealth War Cemetery and the Politics of the Dead Author: Romen BosePublisher: Singapore Marshall Cavendish, 2006

A French philosopher, whose name for the moment escapes me, once said that those who visit war memorials and cemeteries are necrophagous. Reading this, I was stumped, the meaning not being entirely clear. I reached for a dictionary to learn that it means, death-eating.

What? I said to myself. Every time someone goes to