Karan Thapar got the wrong guy!

Tue, 22 March 2011

14:38

When I read Hindu newspaperexcerptsof Karan Thapar's interview with the former foreign secretary and (former?) special envoy Shyam Saran, I thought Thapar's eagle's eye spotted the wrong guy this time around on the IIC lawns.

The secretary dealing with Iran should have been the one to authoritatively speak on Iran. And Saran wasn't that secretary. It was Rajiv Sikri. From the interview with Thapar, it appears Saran doesn't even seem to know that MEA's own recommendation to the PMO was exactly the opposite of what India eventually did at the IAEA when it voted against Iran - namely, India should not vote against Iran.

Maybe Thapar should interveiew Sikri? But then Sikri is living in quiet retirement and he has no post-retirement obligations to anyone on Raisina Hill and he may not even oblige.

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