In 2017, I was helping Bob Woodward, the legendary Washington Post reporter, prepare for an onstage interview at Yale University. The interviewee was Pervez Musharraf, the former president and dictator of Pakistan, who died last month.
The room was packed with students from America, India, and Pakistan, all of whom would had been children during Musharraf’s rule. Musharraf strode onto the stage in a dark-blue suit, looking a little heavyset, and took his seat with his hands clasped on his lap.