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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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Tommy Thomas’ kiss and tell
FEBRUARY 4 — While the career of Mahathir Mohamad’s second term attorney-general stretches beyond 45 years, the two under the ex-PM which draws attention to him. It seems...
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2021: Symbols and Thaipusam
JANUARY 28 — Until 2009, Thaipusam was not a public holiday in Kuala Lumpur. During my childhood, it meant a younger me did not attend school and government driver dad took the...
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SPM 2020: Time to get it done
JANUARY 21 — As rites of passage go, in Malaysia generally it is Form 5 in school. Most of us, and those before us, had their schooling experience defined by what’s usually...
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PM can initiate all-party unity government
JANUARY 14 — With trepidation, my first national Emergency column. Though firsts matter less these days as Malaysia’s choked by firsts. Above all the firsts for the year —...
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Mixed in to mix up Umno in the future? The story of biracial children
JANUARY 7 — Forget about Nueang Nandanagara. Look at the delegates at the Umno Assembly just ended. While they were busy busying about power and national mistrust, among them...
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Goodbye 2020!
DECEMBER 31 — Talk about a misleading promo. How stupidly, exactly a year ago, you and I stood in our living rooms or large convention centres to usher in this torturous year...
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Winners and losers in Malaysian politics 2020
DECEMBER 24 — Hindsight is 2020, yes, thanks for that year 2020! It had it all — a PM under attack, that PM resigns, a race to a new majority involving also the resigned PM,...
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Nowhere children who miss home
DECEMBER 17 — Memories I own. Standing outside Leytonstone train station. Sitting inside the old Greek legislative assembly. Looking out the window as my American airline flight...
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Reinvent or collapse on: The Malaysian public school system debacle
DECEMBER 10 — The path to a better future goes directly through our public schools. Howard Dean, former Vermont governor and presidential hopeful, says it plain. However, for...
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A different future eventually, thanks to Covid-19
DECEMBER 3 — Many analysts claim the single biggest reason for Donald Trump’s defeat was Covid-19. He was election-proof until a cataclysmic disease ravaged his American...
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Our greatest fear is having no leadership
NOVEMBER 26 — In my old university debate days, there was a top formula for success in competitions. The low bar debating. Propose almost nothing, therefore opponents cannot...
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Foreign labour and Covid-19 outbreaks
NOVEMBER 19 — One of the worst-kept secrets in the country is how out of control migrant workers’ management has been the past decade. Or longer. There are more undocumented...
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Deepavali ads are only skin-deep
NOVEMBER 12 — Movies are exaggerations. They occasionally represent truths, our best intentions or our worst ones, and indeed a fib here and there. All in two hours or so. Add...
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Identity politics’ appeal dwindles as unemployment grows
NOVEMBER 5 — February’s euphoric rhetoric about the restoring of “Malay rule” has somewhat died over these past months. Some might wonder where it went. After all, what...
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Well... the voters are to blame
OCTOBER 29 — A deputy minister blames voters for the current political debacle and agitates urban Malaysia. A barrage of social media comments and commentaries ensue. One dude...