In April nineteen fifty five, leaders from
twenty nine countries were getting together at Bandung in Indonesia. Their aim:
to reiterate their commitment towards world peace and exhibit Afro-Asian
solidarity. It had been almost ten years since the end of the Second World War
and almost all the participants of this Bandung conference as it was later to
be called were those who had won their freedom only recently.
JawaharLal Nehru, then Prime Minister of
independent India dominated the session. It was here he articulated, once again,
his famous doctrine of Panchsheel, his mantra for World Peace. He had delved
deep into the country’s civilization to find this word. It was coined from
Buddhist precepts, the noble fivefold path.
After Bandung, Nehru gained recognition as a
Statesman and frontrunner of the Afro-Asian world. Nehru’s search for a foreign
policy converged with his urge to give independent India the security of
self-reliance.
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