About me

My name is Praba Ganesan,

Let me tell you about me, and help you have a basic understanding of what are the things most important to me. I will say that many people will find some of my ideas different from what they are used to, however a great society is about a place where diverse ideas coexist.

And Malaysia must aspire to be a great society. That is my primary objective in life, to help Malaysia become a great society. A place where your ideas have a space as much as much mine yearn to have one.

There is so much quality and warmth in this country that is an absolute shame we have do not have we deserve, a society which emphasises real concern for its people and a constant drive to help people realise their potential. In economy, political process & access, civil liberties, technology and philanthropy.

I was born in Selangor in and was raised in my early years in a Chinese squatter colony in Cheras, and then to a squatter settlement in Kampung Pandan. In 1980 my family moved to our own home in a government co-operative housing neighbourhood in Cheras, Hulu Langat.

Primary schooling in La Salle Primary, Jalan Peel, and then my secondary education at the Victoria Institution. And then to Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in Bangi for my first degree in Business Admnistration. My graduate studies was in Political Ethics at the Philosophy Department of the De La Salle University, Manila where I was employed.

I’ve taught in universities across Asia and worked in HR consultancy. In my uni years I captained the first Malaysian champions of Asian debating, and won the Best Speaker Prize for Australasia, the only Asian raised person to have ever won it.

But these are just staid facts. It does not tell enough of a person, as a living multidimensional character.

What helps is that my family is of working class roots, and my grandparents were general workers in the various municipalities of Selangor and Kuala Lumpur. My dad was a driver for Jabatan Kerja Raya, and my mom a housewife. To allow my siblings and I to have access to a better life, my dad drove taxis in the evening.

We were taught as children to appreciate honest labour and not to want things just because other people had them. I take these lessons as my person ethos though living a life in KL can challenge even the most sacred of beliefs.

I am continuing a journey to serve, and in doing so serving reason to my own existence. The rest is for the rakyat to decide.