Mahatma Gandhi Oration to be delivered by Nirupama Rao

Sri Lanka India Society in association with the  Indian Cultural Centre, in Colombo and Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies will be organizing Mahatma Gandhi Oration on October 23 at the  Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies auditorium, BMICH, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 07.

 Nirupama Rao, Former Foreign Secretary of India and Former High Commissioner  to Sri Lanka  will deliver the key note address- “Mahatma Gandhi: The Ageless Life”. Taranjit Singh Sandhu, High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka will grace the occasion as well, a statement said.

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.