Book Review: Anger Management: The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship Between India and Pakistan
For Bisaria, the relationship between India and Pakistan has been stormy, rocky, and turbulent since their birth as the successor states of British India amidst the chaos of partition in 1947. In the introduction of the book, he argues that “anger” is the defining motif of the Indo-Pak dynamic, stemming from issues such as partition, territorial disputes, and terrorism, hence the name Anger Management. These issues are deeply entrenched and challenging to resolve, making the effective management of relationships essential to prevent further deterioration. Moreover, the book seeks to answer critical questions such as what do Indian diplomats do in Pakistan, and how do they manage a relationship that is fraught with more lows than highs and more pessimism than hope?
“Election in Pakistan is merely a selection by Army”: Ajay Bisaria ……
As elections in Pakistan is scheduled to take place on February 8, Ajay Bisaria, former High Commissioner of India to Pakistan, who has recently written a book titled ‘Anger Management’, shared his experience with Organiser Assistant Editor Ravi Mishra when Pakistan Government knocked on his door at midnight of February 27 when Bharat threatened to […]
‘Modi and Sharif might prefer to leave a legacy of peace’: Ajay Bisaria
Right now is not the right time to talk to Pakistan, says Bisaria By Mandira Nayar Exclusive Interview/ Ajay Bisaria, former high commissioner to PakistanAJAY BISARIA HAD just 72 hours to pack his bags and leave Islamabad. The Indian high commissioner to Pakistan was expelled by the host country in 2019―the fallout of India repealing Article […]
Managing PakistanReviewing Ajay Bisaria’s Anger Management and Vijay Gokhale’s Crosswinds
TCA Raghavan Anger Management is a history of India-Pakistan diplomacy from its earliest days. In the numerous books on this theme, Bisaria’s work is distinctive not least because he has been the Indian high commissioner to Pakistan and to date the only one who has been expelled. That distinction followed as part of the package […]
India-Pakistan: An inside story with few details
Ajay Bisaria had a ringside view of the events of 2018-19 as high commissioner to Pakistan, but his book sheds little new light Nirupama Subramanian The challenge about writing a book about Pakistan is to find novel ways to tell an old story, even one in which new sub-stories keep sprouting within an apparently unchanging […]
Agra Summit to the night of the missiles, a tip-off that stopped an attack to end of Art 370: An envoy to Pakistan gives an inside view
Shubhajit Roy Former diplomat Ajay Bisaria’s book, part memoir and part history, explores the fraught India-Pakistan relations since Partition Two days after the Narendra Modi government scrapped Article 370 that granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) on August 5, 2019, the then Indian envoy Ajay Bisaria was expelled from Islamabad. Bisaria served as India’s High Commissioner in […]
Diplomacy on the edge
Weaving in global geopolitics over India, Pakistan, and Kashmir, former Indian High Commissioner Ajay Bisaria explores the complex tapestry of Indo-Pak relations with humour and insight Aditi Phadnis It is almost de rigueur for an Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to write a book after he leaves office. And the appetite for books that help Indians understand […]
Imran Khan floundered
Former Diplomat’s book sheds light on events leading to ouster of Khan from power post-abrogation of Article 370 ANI Jan 09, 2024 Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan was calling India’s PM a “fascist” and deploying all social media assets for a new war against “Hindutva”, according to a new book by Ajay Bisaria, […]
For good diplomacy don’t just manage anger, channelise it
SUSHANT SAREEN The bottomline of India and Pakistan relationship is that normalcy is not possible until Pakistan reconciles to the reality and existence of India In a country like India where official records are not made public even after decades, writings of former officials provide a valuable resource to scholars and anyone else interested in […]