Pointing to the horizon where the sea and sky are joined, he says, ‘It is only an illusion because they can’t really meet, but isn’t it beautiful, this union which isn’t really there.’ — SAADAT HASAN MANTO 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, flashpoints 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 US 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.
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The tiff between the central bank and the Government of India (GoI) which are very apt regarding the NPA issues plaguing the Indian banking sector. The book provides an eloquent background and analysis of how and why such NPAs or apparently good-looking loans turned bad. A broad objective of the book is to put forward a simple question: What is the justification from the banker’s and depositor’s point of view who are suffering hardships in getting back their hard-earned money despite not committing any fault? The primary purpose of this book is to highlight the loopholes in the entire system and to recommend possible remedies.
1982. Three teenage girls planning a flight from the Soviet Union to the West end up being sold in Bombay’s red-light area instead.The murders start a quarter of a century later. The victims are all men. All of them tricks waiting for trysts with high-class escorts. DCP Rita Ferreira is quick to recognize it as the work of a serial killer; the media isn’t far behind. The news sends shock waves through the city: the first serial killer in the living memory of Mumbai is out on the streets. As Rita grapples to establish the killer’s pattern the killer gives her 24 hours to stop the next murder. Can she do that before she becomes the next victim?
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