India News: A full debate with Deepak Chaurasia on how US diplomacy influenced and altered Indo-Pak relations. Deepak Chaurasia first interviewed Musharraf in July 2001 in Rawalpindi at the sprawling official residence of the army chief, a month before the disastrous Agra talks he had with the then Indian Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee. He spoke with refreshing candour, painting himself as a democrat and stating that his first meeting with Vajpayee would be a "historic moment for real peace". When I asked him where his super-confidence stemmed from, he replied, "I don't believe in making life, well, a matter of life and death. I believe in calculation and cool analysis."