Regardless of how I’m perceived by people, I will continue to do what is right and just.

Recently, I have been asked to give talks, or just to meet and greet certain “VIPs”, more often than before. This is probably due to the fact that I began writing regularly for this newspaper in 2008.

I have no doubt that when my name is heard, it is almost immediately followed by the thought, “she is LKY’s daughter”. I suspect many readers first read me because they were curious about LKY’s daughter, how she thought and felt, especially since some perceived me as anti- establishment.

I am Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter and I am proud of him. That does not mean I need to agree with every decision the Cabinet makes.

But I am not anti-establishment either. On the contrary, I would like the establishment to make decisions that are correct for Singapore. When it makes a decision that I think is unwise, I try to give feedback and hopefully persuade the authorities to reconsider their position. Why else would I, a neurologist, agree to be part of the roster for the Think-Tank column in The Straits Times or write in this space roughly every fortnight? I hope that by now people read me because they find what I write interesting and educational.

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