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Natwar-Singh, K.

NATWAR-SINGH, K. Indian, b. 1931. Genres: Novellas/Short stories, Autobiography/Memoirs, Biography, Essays. Career: Government of India, Member of Staff, Indian Embassy, Peking, 1956-58, and Permanent Indian Mission to the U.N., NYC, 1961-66; Indian Representative, Executive Board, Unicef, 1962-66; Alternate Indian Delegate, U.N. General Assembly, 1963; Rapporteur, U.N. Committee on Decolonization, 1963-66, and U.N. Trustee- ship Committee, 1965; Deputy Secretary, and Joint Secretary, Prime Minister's Secretariat, New Delhi, 1966-71; Indian Ambassador to Poland, 1971-73; Member, Indian Delegation, U.N. General Assembly, 1971; Deputy High Commissioner, London, 1973-77; attended meeting of Commonwealth Heads of State and Government, Kingston, Jamaica, 1975; High Commissioner in Zambia, 1977-80; Ambassador to Pakistan, 1980-82; Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs, 1982-84; Minister of State for Steel, 1984-85; Minister of State for Fertilizer, 1985-86; Union Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, 1986-89; Member of the 12th Lok Sabha, 1998; Parliament, fr

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One Life is Not Enough: An Autobiography

Former Minister in charge of External Affairs, Kunwar Natwar Singh s autobiography One Life Is Not Enough is an honest, searing account of the veteran's life as a bureaucrat, politician, and cabinet minister. Natwar Singh talks about his experiences in Delhi s political corridors and sets the record straight on several events, including the Volcker controversy. Summary of the Book Natwar Singh joined the Indian Foreign Service and served as a bureaucrat for 31 years. He joined the Congress Party in 1984, and became a Minister of State in the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi s council with the portfolios of steel, agriculture, and coal and mines in 1985. In this much-awaited autobiography, the former cabinet minister talks justly about his experiences and services in various ministries. Singh has played a significant role in Indian politics for more than twenty years and has been a part of some of the most epochal events of independent India, including Indo-China talks and the formation of Bangladesh. In 2002, when the Congress party ca

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One Life Is Not Enough

October 10, 2014
The story of Natwar Singh is really fit for a political pot boiler. He is from a princely family, studied in Cambridge, was the first IAS/IFS officer from the state of Rajasthan, a career diplomat who rubbed shoulders with the powerful in the world, left career diplomacy to join Congress. He was a Cabinet Minister with his stars on ascendancy due to his proximity to Gandhi-Nehru family (the relationship extending to six decades) until an UN Report damned him to political oblivion(An American conspiracy?). The biography of such a politician will definitely be controversial and it did create controversy even before publication because of adverse mention of the first family of Congress. But for all its pre publicity hype, the bookd does not mention anything new to a keen observer of the Indian politics for the last four decades. The blunder of Pt. Nehru in the matter of handling of Chinese aggression, his immature handling of Kashmir Issue, Indira Gandhi’s blunder in sending army to storm Golden temple which resulted in her tragic death, Rajiv

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