In Conversation

India should pay more attention to neighbourhood: Pakistan Pakistan’s emergence as a mediator between the United States and Iran has triggered a polarizing debate in India’s strategic and diplomatic circles. While the talks in Islamabad failed to produce a breakthrough, they have raised larger questions about Pakistan’s geopolitical relevance, India’s diplomatic positioning, and the evolving regional order in West Asia. In this edition of “Decoding Diplomacy with Manish Chand,” T.C.A. Raghavan, India’s former High Commissioner to Pakistan and the author of “The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan,” shares his views about why Pakistan was chosen as a mediator, the collapse of the talks, and the implications of the US-Israel-Iran conflict for regional geopolitics and India’s foreign policy choices in its neighbourhood.