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Synopsis This book is a collection of Rajinder Puri’s published newspaper-column articles related to a single theme: Indo-Pakistan relations. The articles deal with different aspects of the problem –the international pressures that influence the relationship, the legacy of history that bedevils it, and the changing international context that suggests a way ahead. At the heart of the Indo-Pakistan discord is, of course, the dispute over Kashmir and the attendant terrorism it has unleashed. N attempt is made to take a holistic view of these problems, and ways are suggested to overcome them. The ensuing criticism of leaders both in India and Pakistan is unsparing. The solution to Indo-Pakistan problems is repeatedly presented as the setting up of an overall South Asian community of nations modeled on the European union. This solution is derived from the author’s view of India’s partition in an earlier book, recovery of India, published in 1991. The Partition is described there as being artificial and avoidable, and having been manipulated by imperialist powers. The articles in this collection, therefore, carry forward, in a sense, the thesis of Recovery of India to its logical conclusion. The views expressed in this book are controversial. But they are based on inferences derived from established facts. Accepted or not, they do merit serious attention.