P. N. Menon (diplomat)
Parappil Narayana Menon (1920- 22 June 1975), [1]also known as P.N. Menon, was a career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service.
Personal Life
He was married to Malini, the daughter of first Foreign Secretary of India, K.P.S. Menon. [2] His son is Shivshankar Menon, who as of 2011 was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister of India .
Civil Service
P.N. Menon first joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1947.[3] At once point he served as Consul-General of India in Lhasa, and later served as intermediary to the young Dalai Lama during the 1959 Tibetan uprising. [4] [5] [6] [7] He died while serving as ambassador to Greece and Yugoslavia. [8]
Posts Held
- War Service Officer, 1947
- Consul-General of India, Lhasa, October 1954-November 1956
- First Secretary, Indian Embassy, Rome, April 1957-May 1958
- Consul-General of India, Damascus, June 1958-February 1959
- Director (External Publicity), MEA, 1959-62
- Consul-General, San Francisco, 1962-65
- Ambassador to Cambodia, 1965-68
- Joint Secretary, Additional Secretary and Secretary, MEA, 1968-72
- Ambassador to Yugoslavia and Greece -1975
See Also
References
- ^ Almanac of Current World Leaders Biography & News: ii. September 1975.
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ K.P.S. Menon (1981). Many Worlds Revisited. p. 276.
- ^ Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Series II Volume 33, p. 479, footnote 16
- ^ Roger E. McCarthy (1997). Tears of the Lotus. p. 208.
- ^ Tséring Shakya (1999). The dragon in the land of snows: a history of modern Tibet since 1947. p. 215.
- ^ John Kenneth Knaus (1999). Orphans of the Cold War: America and the Tibetan struggle for survival. p. 172.
- ^ Raja Hutheesing (1960). Tibet fights for freedom: the story of the March 1959 uprising as recored in documents, despatches [sic] eye-witness accounts and world-wide reactions. p. 84.
{{cite book}}: line feed character in|title=at position 27 (help) - ^ K.P.S. Menon, Sr (1979). Memories and Musings. p. 310.