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Education of an Ambassador is the story of how a former ambassador, who was called upon to make an effort to fashion a 'Higher Education 2.0' for Kerala, ended up educating himself on the hindrances to heralding changes in the system. The resistance to change came in the form of ideological battles, turf wars, bureaucratic lethargy and sheer indifference. The author recounts his experiments with reform passionately and explains his frustrations vividly, but ...
Venkat Forever is a labour of love to which many admirers of Ambassador A.P. Venkateswaran have contributed. They include the family he left behind, celebrities, colleagues in the Indian Foreign Service and a multiplicity of friends from all walks of life. This is a tribute to his sterling qualities and his immense contribution to the making and implementation of Indian foreign policy. His erudition, diplomatic skills, fearlessness and sense of humour are ...
"Applied Diplomacy through the Prism of Mythology is a collection of the fine writings of former Ambassador TP Sreenivasan, curated from a bunch of riveting essays, commentaries and speeches delivered over the course of the last decade. The seven sections of the collection named after seven immortal sages contain seven essays each, establishing a link between diplomacy and mythology.
The essays in each section bear the imprint of a legendary sage, whose ...
'Today’s Icarus may well be tomorrow’s Phoenix,’ says T. P. Sreenivasan, former ambassador and Shashi Tharoor’s long-time friend, in this personal narrative on the fight for the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat in 2009. This is the absorbing story of an extraordinary election in which Tharoor carefully orchestrated his campaign by highlighting his past accomplishments and promises for the future.How did a virtual outsider, who was not ...