My China Diary 1956-1988 by K. Natwar Singh

“Like John F Kennedy, Rajiv Gandhi had a gamesman’s sense of politics. I don’t want to carry this comparison too far, because Kennedy had an acute sense of history that Rajiv Gandhi lacked.”-Natwar Singh

Former External Affair Minister K. Natwar Singh wrote this book about Indo-China relations.As a young Indian Foreign Officer to External Affair Minister,his journey is somehow also related to China.He arrived Peking in 1956. And this book also attributed two big affairs between it.In 1962,Indo-China war and in 1988 visit of PM Rajiv Gandhi to China.

This book presents a real picture and mind conditions of both the sides,and Natwar Singh able to give his views on two of most important PMs during his time Rajiv Gandhi and P.V Narshima Rao via this book.

He described Rajiv’s historical visit to China was his suggestion to reconcile China policy.But he was critical to Rajiv as well,”Unlike his grandfather, his mother and Kennedy, Rajiv Gandhi did not read books. This was a serious shortcoming. Michael Foot wrote, ‘Men of power have no time to read, yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.”

For P.V Narasimha Rao,he wrote, on the other hand, was a “great peever” and was part of an “influential anti-China lobby” in Delhi along with G Parthasarathi and S Gopa.

He is not particularly detailed while jotting down his impressions about life in Peking, he does convey his discomfort with the controlled surroundings.Over all book gives a real view of foreign policy on China.

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