Shattered Hopes
Romen Bose
Nov 2026 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Andrew Hoffland
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Drawing on interviews with first-hand sources in and outside the administration, official minutes and still classified documents, Shattered Hopes focuses on PH1.0’s rocky 22-months in power to tell the story of how a fledgling Government filled with so much promise and hope, was racked by internal power struggles and politicking even in its very first weeks in power, amid policy paralysis, racial politicking and the ultimate unwillingness of veteran Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to hand over power to his twice-anointed successor, Anwar Ibrahim.
In doing so, Shattered Hopes presents readers with a vivid blow by blow account of how broken promises, political patronage and trade-offs, economic dysfunction and racial polarization eventually became the defining characteristics of the promised New Malaysia.
Drawing on interviews with first-hand sources in and outside the administration, official minutes and still classified documents, Shattered Hopes focuses on PH1.0’s rocky 22-months in power to tell the story of how a fledgling Government filled with so much promise and hope, was racked by interna...
About the author
An international correspondent with over twenty-two years of reporting experience in the region, Romen Bose heads a crisis management and political communications consultancy. He is a close confidant to many Malaysian decision makers and the upper echelon of the country’s political elite after having worked as a Political Communications Consultant for former Malaysian Premier Najib Razak for six years. Before setting up his own consultancy, Romen was head of Asian social media intelligence at IHS Markit and worked as a senior foreign correspondent with international news agency AFP based in Kuala Lumpur. He was the founding president of the Foreign Correspondents Club of Malaysia and a senior producer with the English service of Al Jazeera International when it opened its regional base in Malaysia. Prior to this, Romen was the Indochina Bureau Chief for Channel News Asia, Assistant Director for the north-west India region at the Singapore Tourism Board and also consulted for the United Nations. Romen has also researched and written extensively on the second world war and its impact on Southeast Asia.
An international correspondent with over twenty-two years of reporting experience in the region, Romen Bose heads a crisis management and political communications consultancy. He is a close confidant to many Malaysian decision makers and the upper echelon of the country’s political elite after ha...
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