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Conversation with Benjamin Zachariah
“We must not overestimate our own importance,” Jawaharlal Nehru said at Belgrade in 1961, the year in which he was being hailed as the founder of the Non-Aligned Movement. This is a good epigram for the fate of Bandung as a set of ideas, and says much about the issues discussed at Bandung that have disappeared from subsequent discussions of the conference. Here, we discuss a number of such issues surrounding the Cold War, Bandung, and the legacy of non-alignment.
Conversation with Benjamin Zachariah
“We must not overestimate our own importance,” Jawaharlal Nehru said at Belgrade in 1961, the year in which he was being hailed as the founder of the Non-Aligned Movement. This is a good epigram for the fate of Bandung as a set of ideas, and says much about the issues discussed at Bandung that have disappeared from subsequent discussions of the conference. Here, we discuss a number of such issues surrounding the Cold War, Bandung, and the legacy of non-alignment.
