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Spy Chronicles – RAW ISI and the Illusion of Peace
A S Dulat, Aditya Sinha. Moderated by Neena Gopal.
Speakers
“Sometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, 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. Guided by journalist Aditya Sinha, the conversations covered the subjects that have long haunted South Asia, flashpoints that take lives regularly. 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.”
Speakers
A S Dulat
Amarjit Singh Dulat served as head of the Research & Analysis Wing from 1999 to 2000. After retirement he was appointed as advisor on Kashmir in the Prime Minister’s Office from January 2000 to May 2004 to ‘monitor, manage and direct’ the Vajpayee government’s peace initiative in Kashmir. He joined the Indian Police Service in 1965 and came to the Intelligence Bureau in 1969. At the IB, he headed the Kashmir Group during the turbulent 1990s rising to be Special Director before moving across to the R&AW. He is the author of the book Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years (2015).
Aditya Sinha
Aditya Sinha is a columnist and writer. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of The New Indian Express, based in Chennai, and Daily News and Analysis (DNA), based in Mumbai. Besides ‘The Spy Chronicles’, his books include “The CEO Who Lost His Head”(2017), “Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years” (with AS Dulat, 2015), “Death of Dreams: A Terrorist’s Tale” (2000), and “Farooq Abdullah: Kashmir’s Prodigal Son”(1996).
