Who: Mr Dhevarajan Devadas, 34, has a knack for making doomscrollers on social media sit up to learn about Singapore history. The public policy analyst by day also creates history content on his TikTok account (@historyogi), which has over 120,000 followers. He hosts the Historyogi podcast series, where he interviews historians, scholars and writers.

“For someone who wants to learn more about Singapore history, I would begin with Thomas Stamford Raffles: Schemer Or Reformer by Syed Hussein Alatas. It gets one thinking about Raffles’ role beyond the founding of modern Singapore and interrogates his troubling colonial legacy.

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