TY - BOOK AU - Dulat, A. S AU - Durrani, M. Asad AU - Sinha, Aditya TI - The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace SN - 9789353575960 U1 - 327.5405491 PY - 2020/// CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India PB - HarperCollins Publishers India KW - Sports and fitness KW - India KW - India and Pakistan KW - Diplomatic relations KW - India--Jammu and Kashmir KW - Pakistan. Inter Services Intelligence N2 - 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. 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.At a time of fraught relations, this unlikely dialogue between two former spy chiefs from opposite sides may well provide some answers ER -