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Nirupama Rao to deliver the Mahatma Gandhi oration
View(s):Former Foreign Secretary of India and one-time High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Nirupama Menon Rao, will deliver the Mahatma Gandhi oration speaking on “Mahatma Gandhi: The Ageless Life” at 6 p.m. on Monday, October 23 at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies auditorium, BMICH, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7.
Nirupama Rao
The oration is organised by the Sri Lanka India Society in association with the Indian Cultural Centre, Colombo and Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies. High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka Taranjit Singh Sandhu will grace the occasion.
Nirupama Menon Rao is a retired Indian diplomat, Foreign Secretary and Ambassador. She was educated in India and joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1973. During her four-decade-long diplomatic career she held several important assignments. She was India’s first woman spokesperson in the Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi, the first woman high commissioner from her country to Sri Lanka, and the first Indian woman ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. She served as India’s Foreign Secretary from 2009-2011. At the end of that term, she was appointed India’s Ambassador to the United States where she served for a term of two years from2011-2013.