NORTHEASTERN RIVERS
VIMAL KHAWAS, Professor, Special Centre for the Study of North-East India,
Jawaharlal Nehru University
TURBULENCE ON DELICATE WATERS
Strategies to Reduce Risk of Flood in the Tista River in Sikkim and North Bengal
SOUTHEAST ASIA 360
ANIRBAN LAHIRI, Regional Specialist
VIETNAM AT A CROSSROADS AT 50
Mid-Life Crisis or Golden Years Ahead?
ROAD TO MALAYA
PHILIP GEORGE, Our Man in Tuscany, Malayan-born English Writer, Lawyer,
Traveller and Sportsman
THE HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY HOUSE AND THE GAME OF CARDS
How China Tidied its House While the West Misplaced its Deck
GURJIT SINGH, Guest Editor
GURJIT SINGH
INTRODUCTION
INDIA, THE WORLD, AND THE BANDUNG CONFERENCE
Pioneering a Postcolonial Global Order
CHRISTOPHER J. LEE, Lead Editor, Safundi
THE ANTINOMIES OF BANDUNG
The Opportunities and Cul-de-Sacs of the 1955 Asian-African Conference
ANDREA BENVENUTI, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales
NEHRU’S BLOCKING OF SEATO AT BANDUNG
His “Third Way” to Creating a Neutralized Afro-Asia
YAYAN G.H. MULYANA, Ambassador of Indonesia to Sweden
and CUT NURY H. SABRY, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia
DASASILA BANDUNG AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Towards a New Architecture of Solidarity Under Bandung 2.0
HEBATALLAH ADAM, Professor of Economics, School of Business, Horizon University College, United Arab Emirates
BRIDGES AND BARRIERS TO ECONOMIC SOVEREIGNTY
The Bandung Spirit Then and Now
A. SOOKLAL, South African High Commissioner to India, Bangladesh & Nepal
VIEWPOINT
BANDUNG @ 70
Putting the Global South at the Forefront of a Multipolar World
RUTHI HMINGCHUNGNUNGI, Guest Faculty, Mizoram University,
and JANGKHONGAM DOUNGEL, Professor, Mizoram University
WOMEN IN MIZORAM POLITICS
Their Slow Rise in the Autonomous District Councils
LEISHILEMBI TEREM, Delhi Public School,
ARTHA MISHRA, Awadh Prabha Vidyapeeth,
SHLOK GOENKA, Narayana E-tecno,
and NZANO ELISE HUMTSOE, Patkai Christian College, Nagaland
A YOUTH MODEL TO DISSOLVE ANTAGONISM IN NORTHEAST INDIA
And Other Ways to Foster Inter-ethnic Empathy in a Survey of Adolescents
KELVIN KE JINDE, Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
THE “DIVINITY” OF ART CINEMA AS A DISCIPLINARY POWER
The Case for Decolonizing Cinema Studies
ERICK RAVEN, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Baylor University
AFRO-ASIAN LIBERATORY RHETORIC THROUGH
THE JAPANESE BLUES (BURUSU)
Kaji Meiko as Women’s Rights Warrior in Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter
ANWITHA KANDULA, Southside, Greenville, South Carolina
THE WAR OUTSIDE, THE RESISTANCE WITHIN
Hayao Miyazaki’s Political Allegory of Totalitarian Power, and the Quiet Rebellion of the Individual
AITOR DEBBARMA, PhD Candidate, and URMI SENGUPTA, Assistant Professor,
The ICFAI University, Tripura
WONG KAR-WAI AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF “MURAKAMI’S CHILDREN”
A Tapestry of Affective Resonances
REVIEW BY SALIKYU SANGTAM
Logdrum Foundation
Stephen M. Streeter, “Uncool and Incorrect” in Chile: The Nixon Administration and the Downfall of Salvador Allende. North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 2023.
HOW NIXON TRIED TO “MAKE CHILE SCREAM”
A Fresh Look At The Coup Of 1973, And The Tragedy Of Salvador Allende
REVIEW BY AURKO CHAKRABARTI
Advanced Study Institute of Asia
Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit, A History of Thailand (4th ed),
Cambridge University Press, 2022.
MODERNIZATION WITHOUT DEMOCRACY
Early Thai Empires And U.S. Cold War Hegemony
REVIEW BY PRIYANKA GARODIA
Advanced Study Institute of Asia
Simon Hall, Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys That Changed the World. London: Faber & Faber, 2024.
PAIRING REVOLUTIONARY LEADERS AND WESTERN JOURNALISTS
History Through An Anglo-centric Lens
REVIEW BY MANASHJYOTI KARJEE
Advanced Study Institute of Asia
His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Voice for the Voiceless Over Seven Decades of Struggle with China for My Land and My People.
New York: William Morrow/HarperCollins, 2025.
A FAREWELL STATEMENT
What About The Concrete Next Steps Beyond Hope And Non-violent Advocacy
Front Cover image: Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser with Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of India at the Bandung Conference. Wikipedia image is in the public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Abdel_Nasser_at_the_Bandung_Conference_with_Prime_Minister_Jawaharlal_Nehru_of_India.jpg
