Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has expressed regret over anti-India comments he made to former US President Richard Nixon.
"The Indians are bastards," Mr Kissinger said shortly before the India-Pakistan war of 1971, it was revealed this week.
Mr Kissinger also called former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi a "bitch" during the conversation.
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Mr Kissinger told NDTV that this was not a "formal conversation".
"This was somebody letting off steam at the end of a meeting in which both President Nixon and I were emphasising that we had gone out of our way to treat Mrs Gandhi very cordially," he said.
"There was disappointment at the results of the meeting. The language was Nixon language."
Sure, Hank. Blame the dead guy.
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