Journey to Amity: India and Musharraf’s Pakistan

Krishan Kumar Katyal is a journalist of long standing, with his professional career starting from a few months after the country’s independence. Recently, he completed his tenure of nearly three decades with The Hindu where he was actively engaged in the coverage of political developments, both domestic and in the field of foreign relations, apart from writing regular commentaries and interpretative and analytical articles. Earlier, he was with The Statesman for some ten years, which gave him exposure to the political developments in the initial phase of the post-Nehru era. He started with Indian News Chronical, now defunct. He traveled widely, covered many international conferences and interviewed several heads of government and high-ups, beginning with the Soviet boss, Nikita Khrushchev, and ending with the French President, Jacques Chirac. His interest in Pakistan’s affairs and its relations with India was deep and wide, as was reflected in his writings. The Pakistan connection remains strong through his several visits there. Born at Jhang in Punjab (Pakistan), where he had his early education, he did his B.A. from Lahore and LLB from Delhi University after the partition.