Maisha Reza:
There are countless benefits for decolonization. And the general benefit I would say is that our society would become much more just for everyone. It will hopefully become a space where one's gender, skin colour or ethnicity, the texture of one's hair, one's physical ability, religious beliefs, sexuality no longer become reasons for unfair advantages or reasons for discrimination and marginalization of groups, which can often manifest into life-threatening outcomes.
Subhajit Naskar:
The decolonization project has tried to interrupt not only the way framework of knowledge existed, but also the way the most vulnerable in the society existed, and their experiences mattered. So, the decolonization process started giving more importance to the experiences and to the lives of the vulnerables. I think that decolonization as a project can not only liberate the knowledge production, but it can also give birth to new social frameworks or the way the societies were, were existing. Also, politics: politics, as an enterprise, for example, which will be sort of existing for the maximum benefits or as an utilitarian project for the marginalized will have different kinds of experience if it is decolonized, when the entire politics is mapped through the hegemonic and the de-hegemonic discussions. So, decolonization and its potentials not only can be normative, but it can also be very, very epistemological. So, it is the kind of epistemic violence that the colonies sort of experienced, and the post-colonial discussions failed to articulate. The project of decolonization can basically come in as a major disruptive force where, where, where this can, this can sort of blow out the already existing privileged hegemonic sensibilities. But decoloniality in an Indian sense can be a model of dehegemonization, where the hegemonic forces will be interrogated through this framework and they will, it is not that the marginalized will have a better experience, but they will also understand the politics of, of democratic ideals and the politics of emancipatory principles and the way, for example, they experience the society and culture.
Aveen Hameed:
It offers us the opportunity to really understand our history to really reflect on the past, but also to understand how that past is shaping our future and the world that we live in today. I think it's helping us to understand where that where we're going in the future. It's helping us to understand the injustices that are that people currently face and I hope it will help us to shape a better world.