Harsh Dev

“Shishon ka koi messiah nahin, kyon aas lagaye baithe ho.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“This book was written in good faith, with diligence to the truth, and as a matter of public service. Some of what I write may be contested. But the whole purpose of the book is to arouse interest in Kashmir and learn from past mistakes. In any case, mine can’t be the last word on Kashmir, but I hope it will be the nearest to the truth.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“Therefore internal debates and bickering continue and inevitably flow into the public domain, confounding the existing confusion. Rajiv Gandhi had once said that intelligence organisations could not be treated like the rest of the bureaucracy. It is time the government settled these issues once and for all—who better to do it than Prime Minister Modi.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years

“The Kashmiri has a huge problem,’ Hashim said. ‘He doesn’t want to speak the truth, he doesn’t want to hear the truth.”
― A.S. Dulat, Kashmir: The Vajpayee Years