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.

Contents
Introduction
1.The Setting of the Mould
2.Working Together ?
3.High and Lows
4.From One War to Another
5.Picking Up the Pieces
6.Dissidents and Crisis
7.Hop for the Future in a Troubled Decade
8.A New Century but an old Terrain

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-334) and index.

Also available as an e-book.