Perilous Interventions: A revealing Title to the Initiated

NEW DELHI. India’s Vice President M.Hamid Ansari released a book by Hardeep Puri titled ‘Perilous Interventions: The Security Council and the Politics of Chaos’ at a wellattended function September 7 in New Delhi.

Addressing a packed house after releasing the book ‘Perilous Interventions,’ Vice President lauded the effort in writing it, saying that, “To the initiated,the title of Ambassador Hardeep Puri’s timely and well written book reveals much!”

Like Mr Puri, the author of the book, Mr Ansari has been a distinguished diplomat and also served as Puri’s predecessor at the United Nations, although much before.

Mr Puri, who played a critical role behind the scenes during his tenure as rotational president of the United Nations Security Council in 2011 and in 2012, helping to prevent an all out war in Syria, has written an insider’s account of the deliberations on the Levant at the world’s diplomatic high table.

“India has been a Non-Permanent Member of the UN Security Council only on seven occasions since 1946, the last being the term 2011-2012. For this reason alone, Ambassador Hardeep Puri’s book has uniqueness for being ‘an insider’s account,’” the Vice President said, which “adds to our understanding of the inner mechanisms of an institution that has at times been called a modern day ‘Star Chamber.’”