Dear all,
Thank you all for making this online conference a memorable event.
Thank you Darwis
for the great leadership and for always maintaining the Bandung Spirit at the
core of all decisions, academic as well as logistics.
Thank you Aurore
and other Masters Students of Le Havre for the excellent coordination and
efficient management of all the arrangements. Your commitment to the democratic
cause was evident.
Thank you Marzia and Victor for steering our Geopolitics panel so
well.
Beatriz your role
in making the New Globalism panels very meaningful deserves our gratitude.
Getting Gabriela to participate in this panel was most valuable. Monica's
framework paper was most relevant. Dimitris's perspective paper on Capitalism's
crises gave us a sharp baseline. Dragana brought the reality of China's global
role today very well Rita put the gender and peace dimension at the
centre of this discourse. Siddharth's pointer to construct a people's global
history from Bandung vantage point was an interesting challenge. Your report
captured the nuances effectively.
Beatriz, Your
efforts made it possible for Atilio Boron and Leonel Nodal to join and it made
a great difference to our deliberations.
One could attend only a few designated panels where one was
listed. From the reports in the last session we got a view of the rich
discussions with powerful arguments and much insight and information that was
presented in the three days. Sincere gratitude to the growing Bandung
Community.
I came to know many friends much more closely than before. Every time I
hear Dimitris it is always a new insight and a challenge. Marco's wisdom and
cool reasoning always inspire me.Listening to Isaac Bazie was a delight. I am
amazed at Devon's range of grasp relating to Latin america and Asia , ecology
and politics. Seeing scholars like Isabela and Victor makes one optimistic
about the future of our initiative. Veteran feminist Diah's role not only in
the Gender panels but in the entire Bandung - Belgrade global deliberations is
a source of great inspiration and hope. It was great to see Tulus whose
singleminded focus on researching and publishing on Small and Medium
Enterprises ( his journal ) besides his important writings on Development
Economics of Indonesia is an important dimension of the core of the Bandung
development model. It was great to see stalwarts of the Nuclear disarmament
Movement such as Kate Hudson and Achin Vanaik which helps us to revive the
focus on PEACE at the core of the Bandung movement.
I am sorry about the very small number of participants from India. But I
am hopeful that Akhil's leadership and Seema's initiative and their boundless
energy will attract more young scholars and activists to join the new global
process flowing from Bandung. Bidyut and I will be always by their side.
Friends, while the official report may be prepared in due time, we can
all write our individual reflections in magazines and newspapers in our own
regions and languages. And share them in our website and on e-mail and in
Defend Democracy Press which I am sure Dimitris will welcome.
Cheers!
Happy Spring
Festival to our East asian Fiends as we enter the Year of the Ox.
Mano
Manoranjan Mohanty
Retired Professor of Political Science, University
of Delhi
Honorary Fellow, Former Chairperson,
Institute of Chinese Studies, (www.icsin.org)
Distinguished Professor, Editor, Social
Change
Council for Social Development, ( www.csdindia.org)
Sangha
Rachana, 53 Lodhi Estate, K K Birla Lane, New Delhi-110003