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Praba Ganesan
Praba Ganesan is chief executive at KUASA, a democracy outreach organisation. It's time to be involved. You can contact him at [email protected] or follow him on Twitter @prabaganesan.
More from Praba Ganesan
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Chillax Malaysia: This is the message we want to hear
AUGUST 15 — Two rules for compassionate leaders to live by; one, condemn all violence regardless of source, purpose or perpetrator, and second, never threaten violence. This...
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It khats both ways
AUGUST 8 — I fear Cikgu Othman opted for early retirement after trying to fix my Jawi handwriting in primary school. It was a tough beat for him. So, what’s the writing...
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Position vacant: Nation builders with vision and inter-personnel skills
AUGUST 1 — How to forge a nation of principles? If it were to be realised, it requires leaders with principles. Therefore, are the present leaders following principles or...
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Trust the people more than the leaders
JULY 25 — In my schoolyears, the story of the acronym RAHMAN made the rounds. How it started, no one knows, but the first name of the first prime minister was claimed to...
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Now every adult in Malaysia can vote, Mr Armstrong
JULY 18 — Fifty years and two days ago, a moon-bound Apollo 11 captured the imagination of our species. Inspires still. Incidentally, two days ago, the Dewan Rakyat unanimously...
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A prime minister for most of Malaysia
JULY 11 — If today, President Donald Trump asked for white unity, for all its leaders to stand under one umbrella to protect white interests and survival — White Democrats,...
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I don’t know you, but I hate you so much
JULY 4 — Set aside the minister’s political illiteracy regarding his “Africans in the plantations” solution. Consider how Malaysians responded separate from his political...
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The slow, quiet death of our public education and an invitation to the funeral
JUNE 27 — Thirty years ago, International School Kuala Lumpur (ISKL) competed in the state inter-school football competition. Back then, ISKL meant a stream of Caucasian...
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Malaysia: A muted future without a pilot
JUNE 20 — The aftershocks from the pornographic videos — despite the Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission’s (MCMC) best efforts to dissuade their spread —...
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Virtue signalling politics AKA how videos destroy leaders
JUNE 13 — Are we world leaders in sleaze? The last 48 hours have been, strangely, par for the course in Malaysia. It must be unnerving to be one of the few countries not to be...
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Learn to be a statesman, Kit Siang
JUNE 6 — Government of the day. Five federal ministers including the son, Lim Guan Eng. Second largest bloc in Parliament with over 40 seats, and in control of Penang. DAP...
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Lead us to a fairer Malaysia
May 30 — “Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one gets left behind. An instrument of good.” (Aaron...
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The Maszlee Tightrope aka the painful change Malaysia needs to make
MAY 23 — For a people to walk forward together, all must challenge their personal preferences. If to choose nation over self requires change, shouldn’t change be considered?...
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Faith in multicultural Malaysia
MAY 16 — Tomorrow, I’ll be having lunch with grandma. With mum’s mum on a Friday. Mind you, she’s handy with a sickle. More a farmhand than housewife. My only living...
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Pakatan government survives infancy
MAY 9 — It’s a year. The knives remain out, or garlands ready for anniversary parade? Though it must discomfort Pakatan Harapan naysayers to admit their blades grow dull as...