INDIA NARRATIVE
INDIA NARRATIVE

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This book is the autobiography of A.S. Dulat, who is one of India’s most successful spymasters, his name synonymous with the Kashmir issue
Until now no Indian 🇮🇳 spymaster has written a memoir. He is the first to do so and in his book he does it with considerable elan (1/7)
The book explains his methods of engagement and accommodation with all people and perspectives from India’s most conflicted state are legendary
A.S. Dulat is a bestselling author and his views on India, Pakistan, and Kashmir are well-known and sought after (2/7)
The former spymaster has been notoriously private about his personal life but in this unusual and unique memoir, Dulat breaks that silence for the first time (3/7)
The book is not a traditional, linear narrative as much as a selection of stories from across space and time but still bound by the rules of secrecy of his trade
The writer tells a fascinating story of a life richly lived and insightfully observed (4/7)
A.S. Dulat covers his incident from a Partition-bloodied childhood in Lahore and New Delhi to his early years as a young intelligence officer (5/7)
He includes meetings with international spymasters to travel around the world and his observations on Kashmir-political and personal-post abrogation of Article 370 (6/7)
The book also tells about Dulat's encounters with world leaders, politicians, and celebrities
Moving from Bhopal to Nepal and from Kashmir to China, Dulat tells the story of his life with remarkable honesty, verve, and wit (7/7)
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