TCA Raghavan's book The People Next Door about Pakistan is neither one sided nor didactic
As India's high commissioner to Pakistan, Raghavan participated in historic meetings. Yet he has resisted being one sided or didactic.
The description of Pakistan as 'people next door', though laden with irony, fascinated me. Yet I had not compulsively reached out for the book. I had nurtured a certain image of TCA Raghavan in the course of my personal interactions with him when he was the high commissioner to Pakistan.
He was equipped with a certain mellowness, a deep
