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This book tracks seventy years of the India-Pakistan interface. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of the relationship. It looks at the main events through the eyes and words of actual players and contemporary observers to illustrates how, both in India and in Pakistan, these past events are seen through radically different prisms, how history keeps resurfacing and has a resonance that cannot be avoided to this day. Apart from political, military and security issues, The People Next Door evokes other perspectives: divided families, peacemakers, war mongers, contrarian thinkers, intellectual and cultural associations, unwavering friendships, the footprint of Bollywood, cricket and literature: all of which are intrinsic parts of this most tangled of relationships.

T.C.A. Raghavan is a former Indian Envoy to Singapore and Pakistan. He has served as Deputy High Commissioner (2003 07) and High Commissioner (2013 15) in Islamabad. He has had a unique vantage point on India Pakistan ties as director in the office of the External Affairs Minister (2000 02) and from the Pakistan Desk (2007 09) in the Ministry of External Affairs. He has a PhD in history from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and is the author of Attendant Lords: Bairam Khan and Abdur Rahim, Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India.