Tag: R N Kao
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50 Years of R&AW – Is India’s foreign spy agency dreaded or dreadful?
Is R&AW dreaded or dreadful, effective or affectlessly irrelevant, a proactive shaper of India’s history and foreign policy or a bumbling reactionary force? As R&AW turns 50 today, it is worth investigating…
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Forgetting the most influential non-political Indian on his 100th birthday
This column is not to recount R N Kao’s successes or failures; he saw both in good measures. For despite the paucity, there have been some books both by his colleagues and…
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Remembering the legendary Kao
When Mrs Indira Gandhi again became Prime Minister in 1980, she recalled Kao from his retirement and appointed him as her senior advisor on internal and external developments. She used to consult…