Former Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran has had a ringside view of the most critical events in Indian foreign policy in the new millennium. In this magisterial book, part memoir and part thesis on Indiaâs international relations since Independence, Saran discerns the threads that tie together his experiences as a diplomat and takes us behind the closed doors of the world of diplomacy.This book also takes the reader behind the closed doors of the most nail-biting negotiations and top-level interactions from Barack Obama popping by a tense developing country strategy meeting at the Copenhagen climate change summit to the private celebratory dinner thrown by then US President George W. Bush for then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the success of the nuclear deal.