TY - BOOK AU - T. C. A. Raghavan TI - The People Next Door: the curious history of India's relations with Pakistan SN - 9789353022914 U1 - 303.4825405491 PY - 2019/// CY - Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India PB - Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd KW - Security N2 - This book tracks seventy years of the India-Pakistan interface. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of the relationship. It looks at the main events through the eyes and words of actual players and contemporary observers to illustrate how, both in India and in Pakistan, these past events are seen through radically different prisms, how history keeps resurfacing and has a resonance that cannot be avoided to this day. Apart from political, military and security issues, The People Next Door evokes other perspectives: divided families, peacemakers, war mongers, contrarian thinkers, intellectual and cultural associations, unwavering friendships, the footprint of Bollywood, cricket and literature: all of which are intrinsic parts of this most tangled of relationships ER -