
The Spy Chronicles: RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace
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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, flash points that take lives regularly. It was in all ways a deep dive into the politics of the subcontinent, as seen through the eyes of two spymasters. 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 United States and Russia feature in the India-Pakistan relationship; and how terror undermines the two countries' attempts at talks.
When the project was first mooted, General Durrani laughed and said nobody would believe it even if it was written as fiction. 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.
- Listening Length8 hours and 33 minutes
- Audible release date14 March 2019
- LanguageEnglish
- ASINB07PM88FZD
- VersionUnabridged
- Program TypeAudiobook
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Product details
Listening Length | 8 hours and 33 minutes |
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Author | Asad Durrani, Aditya Sinha, A. S. Dulat |
Narrator | Zubin Balaporia, Uday Benegal, Prateek Pillai |
Audible.in Release Date | 14 March 2019 |
Publisher | Audible Studios |
Program Type | Audiobook |
Version | Unabridged |
Language | English |
ASIN | B07PM88FZD |
Best Sellers Rank | #524 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #7 in Political Science (Audible Books & Originals) #1,409 in Politics |
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Reviewed in India on 1 June 2018
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The content in format of conversation between two powerful people of their time just makes it more palatable.
It is obvious that the two chiefs might have censored many things but than they have revealed a lot to satisfy the soul of people addicted to spy chronicles. And than Gen Durrani being criticized and facing court of inquiry back in Pakistan for this book just makes it much more interestingand worth reading.
Paper quality could have been better. Font size and book size is good.Must buy.
My only grouse with the book has been contextualisation of the discussions. References made by both Dulat and Durrani to various people or events are assumed to be known to all the readers however that may not be the case. I would have hoped for a richer text in between discussions to truly enable the reader's understanding of the situation.
And because non of them gave away any state secrets.
Its interesting as interesting as Mr. Dulat’s last book was if not more.
Conversation format makes things even more interesting.
If you link both books with history, news and another book military inc. you can get a pretty good image of whats going in kashmir and why its all happening, who are stakeholders and why, and how to deal with them.
Judging by the country’s environment i must say if you are a ‘blind Bakat’ spend money on something else, one must read this book as a neutral and try to understand things.
If you dont have any base on Kashmir or how Pakistan is a stakeholder in whole Kashmir issue, or you dont know how proxy wars work, this book would make no sense to you, buy something else.
-if you are a well informed person and good at current affairs, this book wouldnt tell you anything new.
-But seriously the cover couldve been better, cover looks terribly cheap with that glossy finish, and that red colour hard binding underneath.. looks horrible.. HarperCollins books usually have really nice cover quality

And because non of them gave away any state secrets.
Its interesting as interesting as Mr. Dulat’s last book was if not more.
Conversation format makes things even more interesting.
If you link both books with history, news and another book military inc. you can get a pretty good image of whats going in kashmir and why its all happening, who are stakeholders and why, and how to deal with them.
Judging by the country’s environment i must say if you are a ‘blind Bakat’ spend money on something else, one must read this book as a neutral and try to understand things.
If you dont have any base on Kashmir or how Pakistan is a stakeholder in whole Kashmir issue, or you dont know how proxy wars work, this book would make no sense to you, buy something else.
-if you are a well informed person and good at current affairs, this book wouldnt tell you anything new.
-But seriously the cover couldve been better, cover looks terribly cheap with that glossy finish, and that red colour hard binding underneath.. looks horrible.. HarperCollins books usually have really nice cover quality


This book does not discuss about spys or any cinematic spy operations.
But it discusses the internal attitude of the RAW and ISI officers .
Track 2 diplomacy
The government's fake response to Pakistan cool people down after a terrorist attack.
It also dicusses the short comings of CIA and also RAW and ISI.
It also compared
The interaction of RAW with Indian Government
And
The interaction of ISI with Pakistani Government.
This book is a very good read
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