All posts by Netusha Naidu

Netusha Naidu is the co-founder of Imagined Malaysia, a nonprofit education project that aims to broaden understanding of Southeast Asian – and specifically, Malaysian – history, by providing a platform to learn and critically discuss alternative historical narratives. Imagined Malaysia has organized countless forums and dialogues, exhibitions, and published an annual journal to push historical discourse in Malaysia. Netusha hopes to participate in the effort of creating public awareness and education about the different narratives and stories that may be omitted from the official/master history. This is to not only change understanding of the nation’s history but to deepen and evolve it to have a more inclusive and rich discourse. The crucial point is to address some of the present concerns regarding historical literacy in Malaysia.

“Silent Voices”? The Subaltern Can Speak & Have Always Spoken

If activists are unwilling to be better allies to marginalised groups, they risk becoming complicit in silencing them.

/ November 5, 2021

Incorporate women’s history for better gender-sensitive public policies and politics in Malaysia

In a world governed by patriarchy, Undi18's Sirikandis offer renewed hope for gender equality in Malaysia.

/ October 29, 2021

The Sun has Set on Empire: Let’s Reimagine Southeast Asia

The struggle for racial, political and economic justice in Southeast Asia is a fight for a genuinely postcolonial condition, and its establishment is implied in each protest against authoritarian ambitions. If colonialism made the modern world, then decolonisation will not be complete until the world – including Southeast Asia – is reimagined.

/ February 20, 2021