The Insiders: Interview with M K Rasgotra - NewsX

The "insiders" featured in this series are no ordinary people: they have held key positions of power and have been in involved in policy and decision making processes. India-USA relations have been anything but smooth in the past couple of decades. And they were at their all time low when Richard Nixon was president of the USA. He had nothing but contempt for Mrs. Indira Gandhi and Mrs. Gandhi was no big fan of his either. However, Mrs. Gandhi did outfox Nixon during the time of the 1971 Bangladesh War. She not only built up public support for India against Pakistan but also inked the Indo-Russia treaty, which guaranteed India a key ally in the Russians. Providing a flavour of those times, are insiders: M K Rasgotra, then India's Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington and later Foreign Secretary; and Natwar Singh, former Minister of External Affairs, and someone who worked closely with Mrs. Gandhi. Hear from them how both these two democracies collided as Mrs. Gandhi took on Richard Nixon and trumped him. In an exclusive interview, Kalyani Shankar caught up with the former Deputy Chief of Mission in Washington and later Foreign Secretary- M K Rasgotra.

For more log onto - http://alpha.newsx.com