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‘We have known Amb. Kishan Rana for his pioneering pedagogical works on the art and craft of diplomacy. His long awaited memoirs reflect the breadth of experience and wide spectrum of professional diplomatic skills, which lie behind his pioneering insights. A must read for scholars and practitioners alike.’Ambassador Shyam Saran Former Foreign Secretary, Chairman, Research and Information Systems, New Delhi.‘When broad diplomatic experience meets deep reflections, you get Ambassador Kishan Rana’s writings. His books are a unique contribution to diplomatic knowledge…a fresh breeze in the diplomatic field, which has been dominated by Western authors. If you want to read about how diplomacy works worldwide, written in an engaging and dynamic style, you should not miss this book’.Dr. Jovan KurbalijaFounding Director of DiploFoundation, Malta and Geneva.‘Kishan Rana…is not only a prominent scholar-diplomat but also a dedicated and successful teacher of diplomatic practice, this memoir…is not, like so many diplomatic and political autobiographies, preoccupied with self-justification, the settling of scores…Instead, it uses the different stages of a long and varied career chiefly to ponder at length and then draw lessons from them; and here he does not pull punches…It is written in his usual crisp and fluent style and I recommend it most warmly.’Prof. GR BerridgeEmeritus Professor at the University of Leicester, UK and a Senior Fellow, DiploFoundation.