•As a historian, what has been your experience in India so far?
My historian friends had warned me about the difficulty in laying hands on documents in the National Archives in Delhi. The Israeli national archives put documents in the public domain after 30 years. India has to change on this count — it should be more forthcoming in disclosing its diplomatic roles. For instance, I am very interested in the exchanges between Nasser and Nehru and in the Indian government’s diplomatic correspondence during the ’67 war. What does a nation have to hide about its past? Let historians look at that past and make their own judgments. That is the only way to learn from our mistakes.
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