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The Spy Chronicles

RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace

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The Spy Chronicles

Written by: Asad Durrani, Aditya Sinha, A. S. Dulat
Narrated by: Zubin Balaporia, Uday Benegal, Prateek Pillai
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Sometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One was a former chief of RAW, India's external intelligence agency, the other of ISI, its Pakistani counterpart. As they could not meet in their home countries, the conversations, guided by journalist Aditya Sinha, took place in cities like Istanbul, Bangkok and Kathmandu.

On the table were subjects that have long haunted South Asia, flash points that take lives regularly. It was in all ways a deep dive into the politics of the subcontinent, as seen through the eyes of two spymasters. Among the subjects: Kashmir, and a missed opportunity for peace; Hafiz Saeed and 26/11; Kulbhushan Jadhav; surgical strikes; the deal for Osama bin Laden; how the United States and Russia feature in the India-Pakistan relationship; and how terror undermines the two countries' attempts at talks.

When the project was first mooted, General Durrani laughed and said nobody would believe it even if it was written as fiction. At a time of fraught relations, this unlikely dialogue between two former spy chiefs from opposite sides - a project that is the first of its kind - may well provide some answers.

©2018 Asad Durrani; A.S. Dulat; Aditya Sinha (P)2019 Audible, Inc. Political Science Politics & Government
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Just a discussion between the Spy chiefs limited on their constraints to share the details in open forum gives an impression that the book is just on the Indo-Pak relations. For a first time reader on the intelligence agencies, this may not be an ideal book.

Only for 1st time readers on RAW & ISI

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excellent book
excellent book if u like how spy agency works and how u can think out of box

excellent

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a marvelous piece on हिन्द पाक assessment great work I salute both gentlemen indeed great thought full work

just impeccable

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Book is good but lot has changed due to Article 370 being taken away. So lot of arguments in the book will not be valid now.

Not relevant today

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the book had it's heart at right place, but the content at times seemed all over the place. nice to have views of both sides on table at same time. gives lot of perspective.

A book if so many ifs and buts

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