Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan

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1915 – 2003

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Who was Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan?

Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan was a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, serving twenty-two years in the UN.

He was appointed to the United Nations in 1956, as Executive Secretary of the U.N. Economic Commission for Asia and Far East. In 1958, he was appointed Under-Secretary for Special Political Questions in the U.N., to work directly under the U.N. Secretary General, Dag Hammarskjöld, and with Nobel laureate Ralph Bunch.

In 1961, he became Chef de Cabinet in the U.N. His last post was as Under Secretary-General before retirement in 1978. In 2001, he received India's second highest honor Padma Vibhushan.

He also wrote an English translation of the Mahābhārata based on selected verses in 1965.

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Born
May 21, 1915
Chennai
Also known as
  • Chakravarthi Narasimhan
Education
  • University of Oxford
Employment
  • Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations, United Nations
    ( - 1978)
Died
Nov 2, 2003
Chennai

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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