Dehradun, Aug. 2 -- Book Review

Uttam Kumar Sinha's scholarly treatise Trial by Water: Indus Basin and India Pakistan Relations could not have come at a more opportune time. Two days after the bloodshed in picturesque Pahalgam - when Pakistan-sponsored terrorists killed twenty-six tourists on July 22nd - Debashree Mukherjee, Secretary of the Water Resources (Jal Shakti) Ministry informed her Pakistani counterpart, Syed Murtaza, of India's decision to keep 'the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) of 1960 in abeyance with immediate effect'. A year earlier, in August 2024, India had issued a formal notice to Pakistan under Article XII (3) seeking a review of the Treaty signed on 19 September 1960 between the democratically elected prime minister of I...