MANAGING PAKISTAN

BISARIA’S NARRATION OF THE CRISIS AFTER THE PULWAMA ATTACK MAKES FOR FASCINATING READIN

- T.C.A. Raghavan

ANGER MANAGEMENT:
The Troubled Diplomatic Relationship between India and Pakistan
By Ajay Bisaria ALEPH ₹999; 560 pages

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 of Pakistan’s reactions to the legislative changes with regard to Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019, which led them to downgrade diplomatic relations.