The former secretary of state was neither the sole policy genius nor the unalloyed war criminal his admirers or detractors made him out to be. | Opinion
Holocaust survivor. Harvard professor. Unlikely sex symbol. But Henry Kissinger, who has died aged 100, will surely be remembered best as an unrivalled colossus of American politics.
As former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger passed away, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday recalled that in 1971 then US President Richard Nixon and Kissinger created huge headaches for India but then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and her close aide P N Haksar proved more than a match for them.