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- ↑ Loh, Arnold (22 March 2015). "Lawyer-poet Cecil Rajendra's poetry remains deeply significant through the years". The Star. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- ↑ Raymond Whitaker (7 August 1993). "Malaysia denies passport to 'anti-logging' poet: Cecil Rajendra puts verse to work in his radical criticism of environmental destruction, writes Raymond Whitaker". The Independent.
- ↑ "Poetic Reason, acidic rhyme". thesundaily.my. 12 November 2005.
