Nothing of substance

This book might seem remotely interesting to an outsider but those of us who have lived in subcontinent will find it extremely hard to derive anything if substance from this book. There is nothing new. Not even new ideas other than a demented general rambling on and on. Complete waste of time and money.

I had expected a lot from this book. However, the two chiefs, Dulat and Durrani obviously have some limitations when they talk about such crucial and critical matters.
Also, I realised there were too many jargons for the normal public to understand.
The book doesn't really have a flow. They talk about various subjects like Kashmir and Balochistan and the other intellects agencies. However, as somebody who doesn't follow politics a lot, quite a few things proved to be jargons.
It was a decent book but didn't really fulfil my expectations.

A nice read.
It's nothing that you expect or are excited for from a book written by two former spy chiefs. There is not much about intelligence or spying in this book.
In this book there is just dialogue between(or rather interview taken by a journalist of) two well experienced and well read people who mostly talk about prospects of peace between and dynamics of or India-Pakistan relations.

This book spreads hope, one extra star is just for that.

A compelling and a necessary read to understand the nuances of India- Pakistan relations better, and more importantly to understand the Kashmir problem in a more dispassionate way. The book ends with a question that Mohammad Hamid Ansari asked,"yeh deewangi kab khatam hogi" and it is this powerful question that the book leaves its readers with.

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.

a book of 'what-if's' and 'what-could-be's'!
but I will take the retrospection of goverment people over private citizens any day.
The cohesive ideas can only be given by a career officers.
This book is not as surgical as Kashmir Years, but that is mainly due to the topicality.
India-Pak has always been a conundrum for the best of minds - but the ideas put forth here are surely sound and quite doable.

This book is the most beautiful account as both former, special services officer RAW and ISI Amarjit Singh Dulat and Asad Durrani did some fantastic job for there respective countries and serves them well with compassion and here the Sharing account what were both countries relationship, what Prime minister did, who can solve the Kashmir issue , what is role of people to resolve the issue, what went wrong with relationship , at what moment we were close to be united and what ruin it and if we were together what would happened , what other issues can be solved and Afghanistan , Balochistan and other problems can be solved if united , what to done for making relationship cordial and what kept us from doing so and what we should do in order to sustain that. Because Talks pf kashmiri people and Punjab people is more important as they were the one neglected by government that leads to problem in states and what are more important tasks that we have to work upon to make things workout between 2 nations.

Interesting read.

DNF.

The premise was intriguing. The layout, however, was not. This conversation more than likely took place in Urdu/Hindi, and after being translated to English comes across as choppy and incoherent (which I'm sure the actual dialogue was not). Did not enjoy.

Do not read too much (pun intended) into this chai (read whisky) pe charcha! It's hardly kadak!