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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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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...
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Subdivide Bumiputera entitlements to warp speed the catch-up
MAY 2 — The self-appointed defenders of race and religion claim they incessantly work overtime to elevate the Malay race to parity in an unforgiving world. Incredulities aside,...
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Matriculation dilemma: When more is more heartaches
APRIL 25 — The matriculation admission quota upheaval abates as government carves up more spots as a backdoor solution to appease all parties. In 2018, 3,200 non-Bumiputeras got...
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Home truths from India and Indonesia’s elections
APRIL 18 — India voted last week. There are no winners, yet. Because Indian voters click their ballots today and for another five rounds till May. This is not about election...
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‘End of days’ campaigning in Rantau
APRIL 11 ― Under 20,000 voters in a Negri Sembilan hamlet on Saturday get to nudge race relations in Malaysia, in one direction or the other. Barisan Nasional-Umno’s Mohamad...
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Bring on a national debate on the Malaysia Agreement
MARCH 4 — The federal government recommits to the spurned 1963 Malaysia Agreement. Partly because it was an election promise, mostly because the Borneo seats sustain Pakatan...
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Oh, Umno, we all doth protest too much?
MARCH 28 — When Lokman Noor Adam and gang crossed the road to manhandle the anti-Najib student protesters in Kuala Lumpur last week, they was well within character. If you...
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Who to hate if you want to thrive as a racist?
MARCH 21 — A friend informs me the Bangladeshis have taken over the market. Something has to be done, he said. This is Pudu Market at the centre of the city. My mind...
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Thivakar can’t get a job, or the tale of the Umno think tank
MARCH 14 — Four groups entered a bar to solve Malaysia’s race problems. An eager minister, equally eager men of a fresh opposition think tank, detractors of unsubstantiated...
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Go positive, Pakatan
MARCH 6 — Do you struggle for motivation? Perhaps with a diet, thesis writing, project management or even rainy days and Mondays. Then I have to tell you, don’t bother asking...