Diplomacy, then & now

Reading The Blood Telegram, Gary Bass' riveting account of the run-up to the Bangladesh war, amidst the din over the arrest of an Indian diplomat in New York, provides some interesting comparisons. In 1971, as Mr Bass reports, Indira Gandhi and Indians in general were abused constantly in private conversations by a viscerally anti-Indian Richard Nixon and a dangerously cynical but arse-licking Henry Kissinger (whose Nobel Peace Prize should be a lasting shame for the Norwegian Nobel Committee).

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