Crossing the Rubicon

India's nuclear test in May 1998 had reverabations that went beyond the Thar desert, jettisoning its traditional emphasis on idealism, New Delhi renewed its global engagement with a rare sense of purpose and self confidence and revitalized its external relations. In this book, the author narrates India's successful diplomatic experimentation since the mid-1980, one that has not been given its due. His behind the sscenes accounts of India'd initiative to improve its global rapport is a emarkable tale of a country's transformation from a leader of the third world trade union to a participant at the high table of global diplomacy