Book Review | Cosy memoir spells out why trust is the secret of spycraft
1 year, 11 months ago

Book Review | Cosy memoir spells out why trust is the secret of spycraft

Deccan Chronicle  

A Life in the Shadows is an interesting memoir by A.S. Dulat, who spent the bulk of his career as an officer of the 1965 batch of the Indian Police Service in intelligence work. Two doctrines on how to deal with Jammu and Kashmir emerge: the Vajpayee approach which Dulat always practised and endorses, and the Narendra Modi doctrine that Doval espouses. The author explains repeatedly that the book is a memoir as his earlier volume, The Vajpayee Years, has already dealt with the Kashmir dealings of the late Prime Minister. The parts that I could immediately relate to are the ones involving Dulat’s travels abroad with President Giani Zail Singh.

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