Indian High Commissioners to the United Kingdom - Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Atul Chandra Chatterjee, Lalit Mansingh, Kuldip Nayar (Paperback)

Chapters: Laxmi Mall Singhvi, Atul Chandra Chatterjee, Lalit Mansingh, Kuldip Nayar, Maharaja Krishna Rasgotra. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 24. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: L. M. Singhvi (November 9, 1931 October 6, 2007) was a, Indian jurist, parliamentarian, constitutional expert, scholar, distinguished diplomat. He was the longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom (1991-97) He was conferred Padma Bhushan in 1998. He was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India, Singhvi was a member of the Third Lok Sabha from 1962-67 from Jodhpur as an Independent and Advocate General of State of Rajasthan from 1972-77. He was, after VK Krishna Menon, the longest-serving High Commissioner for India in the United Kingdom from 1991-97. He was elected to Rajya Sabha (1998-2004) as a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), . and was Chairman of High Level Committee on Indian Diaspora. He wrote many books such as A Tale of three cities, Bharat or Hamara Samay, Jain Temple and a few in Hindi as well. A linguist and a prolific author, Singhvi was also a well acknowledged scholar of Jain history and culture, remained president of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. He spearheaded the Indian delegation to the United Nations conference on Human Rights in Vienna in 1993, was a member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, and gave the 1993 Rede Lecture at the University of Cambridge on 'A Tale of Three Cities'. He had conceptualised the idea of holding Pravasi Bharatiya Divas to promote interaction with non-resident Indians . He died on October 6, 2007, following a brief illness, in New Delhi, and is survived by his wife and two children. Dr. Singhvi was married to Hindi author, Shrimati Kamla Baid. His son was ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=48089