Gautam Bambawale has a unique distinction: He was India’s high commissioner in Pakistan, Ambassador to Bhutan and China from where he retired last November. In this exclusive interview to SNI, his first since returning to India from Beijing, Bambawale offers a perspective from his tenure in the two capitals that are at the core of South Block’s strategic concerns.
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Swami Dhirendra Shastri called for a meat-free Navratri in Bengal. Parties answered by invoking Shakta tradition. A restricted rite, stripped of its disciplines, has become “culture”, and Bengal uses its first taste of political freedom in decades to flaunt the very decay that helped undo it.
