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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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10 reasons to toast this Merdeka
AUGUST 27 — The long Merdeka weekend awaits. There’ll be other occasions to rue a world gone mad and ruminate over a nation turned into a reality show rife with...
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Pakatan’s gifts to Malaysian democracy
AUGUST 20 — How can a coalition’s calamitous first term in office — which fell shy of 22 months — be categorised as a positive? A positive turn for democracy. Well, it...
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A Malay politics overhaul through gender equality
AUGUST 13 — It’s the season for old men and their latest party tricks. Whether it’s the Slim state seat by-election or the impending Sabah state elections, aged men who...
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Merdeka salute: Malaysia’s Sikhs
AUGUST 6 — It was right behind the house. The gurdwara. Though we had to snake along the lane behind the outhouse into Lorong Tujuh from our Enam. Into the Indian...
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To Malaysian voters: No man is an island, but every man owns his island
JULY 30 — It’s the most natural thing to want. To wish our lives are not beyond ourselves. The living of it, the everyday happenings, to want all of it to be confined to our...
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Permits, films and truths
JULY 23 — What’s a film these days? The question is raised now because the minister said it’s a no-no for productions without permits. The furore over Al Jazeera’s...
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A personal journey of a Malaysian looking for his country
JULY 16 — I have been searching for Malaysia. It has been going on for some time. Where could it be? I cannot be definite. But I can tell where I’ve been. In a missionary...
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Punish bosses to cull illegal foreign workers
JULY 9 — When immigration and police do their annual roundup at any Kuala Lumpur entertainment stretch, the illegals make a dash for it. It’s helter-skelter as many flee...
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The Shafie opening
JULY 2 — Pakatan Harapan surprised many this week. It floated the idea of Shafie Apdal as its prime minister candidate. What was still true to style was the uncertainty over...
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So what will Malaysia look like in the next two years?
JUNE 25 — WWMD? What will Muhyiddin (Yassin) do? The bases are full, the pitcher’s on steroids and apparently the English prefer cricket. And oh yeah, Malaysian politics sucks...
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A letter to the contestants for Pakatan leadership
JUNE 18 — Dear Mahathir Mohamad and Anwar Ibrahim, Neither of you would like to read a letter demonising both of you, so I figured, maybe I’d let the Malaysian people read it....
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Keep employment central in the recovery game
JUNE 11 — Jobs. Plural. The real priority. So no, not about the prime minister’s job. Rather, the hundreds of thousands of jobs gone and expected to go in the months to come....
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Moonlighting MPs and the tale of untapped talents
JUNE 4 — The casual way how stewardship of Klang Valley’s trains (LRT & MRT) and buses (Rapid and feeder) is handed over to one of Dewan Rakyat’s most prolific...
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Rebuild Pakatan, not go headless chicken
MAY 28 — The 15th General Election must happen before 2024. However, Pakatan Harapan (PH) expects to capsize Perikatan Nasional’s (PN) dysfunctional love-boat long before...
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Sugu Pavithra cooks for Malaysia
MAY 21 — A young lass from Ipoh’s old gangster haunt Buntong has captured the imagination of the prime minister and country and is firmly on a trajectory to fame. Still,...